Getting started with TypeScript as a JavaScript developer

 By DEV Community - 2020-12-02

Description

If you're a JavaScript developer, you might have heard of TypeScript already. Or maybe you've had a... Tagged with typescript, javascript, react.

Summary

  • If you're a JavaScript developer, you might have heard of TypeScript already.
  • Summary This is the tip of the iceberg.
  • If you're excited by this, then I promise you that there's much more to be excited by with TypeScript.
  • TypeScript just feels like a crutch for devs coming from strongly typed languages who don't want to embrace doing things in a different way, and take advantage of all the stuff a weakly typed language provides.

 

Topics

  1. Coding (0.24)
  2. Frontend (0.17)
  3. Backend (0.03)

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