Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

This is possible in JavaScript thanks to first-class functions ... If you’ve ever seen a function call that has two sets of parentheses, that’s a higher-order function. This sort of thing ...