Typescript Just Got a Huge Update

Welcome back! Typescript is an amazing programming language with a ton of capability, and guess what!? This language just got another big update! This is Typescript version 5.0, so, let’s take a look at some of the new features brought into this update!

Speed & Memory Improvements

This new version of Typescript brings a ton of speed, memory, and package improvements which should improve the experience of our project! Here are some examples that the Typescript team have shown us compared to Typescript version 4.9:

This is an example of the npm package size differences between 4.9 and 5.0:

This is definitely one of the big updates within Typescript 5.0!

Decorator Updates

This new version of Typescript beings some updates with ECMAScript with it, this is the ability of using classes in a reusable way, this will allow us to develop our projects in a much more cohesive way.