JavaScript has enjoyed it’s hipster level fan following for an exceptionally long time now. Over the years, this fanbase has only grown adding more and more functionality to JS with different frameworks. However, every now and then a little birdie tells us how a few of them tried this trending language called TypeScript and how they instantly fell in love with it. This talk will begin with understanding why and how TypeScript came into existence and later go through some basics of writing code in TypeScript. It will also answer a lot of questions about the various mechanics of the working of TypeScript.