TypeScript for Beginners - What and Why TypeScript

The video introduces TypeScript, highlighting its benefits such as type safety and ease of use for developers. TypeScript allows assigning exact types to variables, function parameters, and return types, ensuring type safety through its compiler. The TypeScript code is transpiled into JavaScript, which the browser executes. The video also covers TypeScript's advantages, including its ability to simplify coding and incorporate OOP concepts like interfaces, inheritance, and encapsulation. The upcoming lectures will demonstrate these features in action.

Can you explain the role of the TypeScript compiler in checking variable types?

What object-oriented programming concepts does TypeScript bring to JavaScript?