TypeScript is an open-source programming language rich in many features like inheritance, classes, visibility scopes, namespaces, interfaces, unions, and other modern features along with static ...

When you compile this and look at the emitted JavaScript, you’ll see that classes in TypeScript are just a shorthand for the same prototype-based inheritance that is used in plain JavaScript ES3.

Foremost is the fact that TypeScript is object-oriented and strongly typed. We’ve touched on this already, but it’s key to TypeScript’s value proposition for larger development teams.