Recursive XHR Call on a Sliding Interval

Preparing a demo for my talk titled “A Practical Overview of Actors in Service Fabric“, that was given at MSDEVMTL and that will be given at DevTeach 2016, I use TypeScript poll a REST API for new messages.

This experiment helped me understand => in TypeScript. Since I lost a few cycles trying to figure this out, I decided to share an example.

I Hated JavaScript

Up to a week ago, I hated JavaScript. Working through multiple revisions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera… had made me realize that it was best to leave client side development to those that thrived on it. Over the years, I read awesome books like JavaScript: The Good Parts. And truly enjoyed the read, but it was not enough to make me like JavaScript. As you may have understood from the blog’s title, my aversion against JavaScript changed. This post, is all about the how and the why I changed my mind.