Typescript is a language, Node is a platform and framework. You can use Typescript in your Node project, they're not mutually exclusive.
The way I see it Typescript is more popular than ever, almost all (popular) libraries come with types and every job offer I get they use Typescript.
And with good reason, our team recently took over a small Javascript app and there are tons of bugs that would never have existed if they were using Typescript. Things like they refactored something but missed to update a reference, or misspelled a variable name, failed to provide a required parameter to a funcrion, referenced a field that existed in another config object etc.
It’s about time JS gave us the ability to be strict on types, and have that as part of the interpreter as opposed to needing to transpile TS with the overhead involved
Typescript is a language, Node is a platform and framework. You can use Typescript in your Node project, they're not mutually exclusive.
The way I see it Typescript is more popular than ever, almost all (popular) libraries come with types and every job offer I get they use Typescript.
And with good reason, our team recently took over a small Javascript app and there are tons of bugs that would never have existed if they were using Typescript. Things like they refactored something but missed to update a reference, or misspelled a variable name, failed to provide a required parameter to a funcrion, referenced a field that existed in another config object etc.
And thankfully we might be getting to a point where TS no longer needs to exist: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
It’s about time JS gave us the ability to be strict on types, and have that as part of the interpreter as opposed to needing to transpile TS with the overhead involved
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