One way to get started with TypeScript annotations is by adding them to function signatures and return types. Here’s a JavaScript function with no type annotations; it’s a way to generate a ...

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 ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order ...

Strings are objects within the JavaScript language. They are not stored as character arrays, so built-in functions must be used to manipulate their values. The functions provide various ways to ...

Register now. Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available ...

At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel. What this means is that Excel users ...

In a previous column, I showed how to create a "Hello, World" application that integrated JavaScript functions and C# Blazor methods. However, my Blazor-world and JavaScript-world code didn't interact ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most interesting is JavaScript Custom Functions. Obviously written in JavaScript - rather than the classic Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - they're meant to allow developers to ...