Typescript
And why you should be using it...
Adessa Tech talks
By: Rafael Poveda
what you should expect from this talk
- Not an expert
- Not a workshop
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Introduce you TS and why you should give it a try
What's TypeScript?
Anders Hejlsberg
- Turbo Pascal
- Delphi
- C#
TS is superset of JS
What's TypeScript?
TypeScript refers to the language and the compiler
Goals:
- Use future ES features
- Add static types to ES
ES8 proposal for including types:
TypeScript features
Reason #1
One of the most loved technologies in 2017 ❤️
(and good paid 💰💰)
Most popular technologies in 2017
*64000 devs Stackoverflow survey
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#overview
Most loved technologies in 2017
*Loved means people who use the technology and wants to keep using it
Best paid technologies in 2017
🇬🇧 ✈️ 💰💰💰💰
The State of the Octoverse 2017
https://octoverse.github.com/
Reason #2
http://latinchat.fun
Reason #3
Mantaining large codebase it's hard 😔... But it could be easier with TS 🙃
“TypeScript enable a softer on-boarding in big projects and allow developers to focus on exposed API rather than having to knowing all the code by heart” - Charly Poly
https://itnext.io/why-use-typescript-good-and-bad-reasons-ccd807b292fb
Why you shouldn’t be using Typescript 😱😱😱
- Small projects that prefer flexibility. ✅
- No time for learning new technologies. 😒
- Prefer to use flow and keep using babel. ✅
