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JavaScript Angular Basics Setting Up an Angular Application Review: Your First Angular Application

I can't find in the video the answer to this question

The three languages that can be used to build an angular application. Is it Typescript, Javascript and darts? Isn't Typescript a tool to help with Angular Errors?

1 Answer

Rune Andreas Nielsen
Rune Andreas Nielsen
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Hi, Dianne.

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. It is used because it gives more type-safety and can throw compile time errors if there are bugs in your code (and much more) .