About

That guy you probably know because you heard something about TypeScript.

Microsoft MVP for TypeScript, Cypress Ambassador, open sorcerer, book author, youtuber, eggheader, developer empathiser.

Founder BooleanArt, a course platform designed to get you up to speed on modern web tech (JavaScript, TypeScript, React) with a consistent learning path.

I also create Software Development content on YouTube.

Twitter/basarat is the quickest way to get in touch.

You can find more about my professional leadership experience up on LinkedIn/in/basarat


Additional

I am also well known as a TypeScript instructor on Egghead.io, with plenty of lessons and courses.

Also a top rated course TypeScript for Professionals on Udemy 🤗


Book Author

Beginning NodeJS

Published by Apress and available on amazon. A year worth of effort went into this, but was totally worth it because of the positive response 🌹

TypeScript Deep Dive

Due to my extensive work with the TypeScript community there were thoughts that I wanted to share on the subject. I collated them in an open source book called TypeScript Deep Dive. Its the number one google result for TypeScript book.

Others

I’ve also reviewed – other TypeScript books and would be happy to review a chapter if you want me to.


Community

I try to help out whenever I can

profile for Basarat Ali at Stack Overflow, Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers

Top contributor for TypeScript.

Microsoft MVP for contributions to the JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem.


Projects

Developer workflows and maintainable code architectures excite me.

Atom Typescript

Atom-TypeScript : Downloaded more than 1.2 million times by developers around the world, this is the defacto TypeScript package for the Atom Editor.

ALM Tools

alm tools : A toolset I designed specifically to meet my personal high quality language tool requirements.

TypeStyle

CSS in JS done with a focus on leveraging TypeScript to provide type safety. Has awesome reviews

Other Projects

Too many to list here. Here are some more highlights:


Open Source Teams

You can find the complete list here. A few key ones I’d like to highlight

  • Definitely Typed : A Community to help people use 90% of the most used JavaScript libraries safely TypeScript.
  • TypeStrong : To help bridge any TypeScript tooling gaps.

Reviews

Multiple works of mine have received great reviews. Here are a few examples:


Presenter

I’ve presented many times. Here are a few that I could dig up quickly in no particular order:

Variously random – talks – even remotely.

Podcasts

Here are few podcasts I’ve been a part of:

Contact

Would be happy to do a talk if you want me to. Otherwise I’m mostly busy creating or helping others with OSS projects.