Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
Charly POLY
Paris TypeScript #13
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
Should I use TypeScript? Do I need it?
⚠️ Theses slides only reflects my opinion, lessons I learned and quoted opinions of others developers.
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Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
With TypeScript,
no need of writing tests
Types are written by the developers and not checked at runtime,
so the “strength” of your program depends on your usage of TypeScript.
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
Is a 15% reduction in bugs making it all the way through your development pipeline worth it to you?
With TypeScript,
no need of writing tests
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
With TypeScript,
I can trust my code at runtime
TypeScript is a static type-checking tool, it does not guarantee that your code will run as expected at runtime.
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
TypeScript looks more like C#,
I don’t need to understand JavaScript
TypeScript shouldn't be used to put some non-JavaScript developers on the front-end as fast as possible.
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Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
TypeScript will help your developers work together on a growing codebase
TypeScript allow developers to focus on exposed API
rather than having to know all the code by heart.
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
TypeScript will help your developers work together on a growing codebase
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
TypeScript tools will save your developers time
This allow me to focus on real problems and let TypeScript cover my back on the things I already know but that I forget sometimes (typos, standard APIs, etc …)
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
The Microsoft community-effort success story
- JS typing tool battle winner
- OSS libraries typing coverage
- Libraries integrations : React, ApolloData
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
TypeScript gives you a taste of future JavaScript, with typings.
Even if “TypeScript” contains “type”,
the language do not force us to use types.
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Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
Bad
- Test replacement,
TypeScript ain’t a test framework - Runtime safety,
TypeScript ain’t a runtime type checker -
I can write object-oriented C# a-like code,
TypeScript is typed JavaScript
Good
- Team and code scalability with “Interface oriented development”
TypeScript will help you dealing with growing teams and large codebase - Tooling and Community
Microsoft made an awesome community effort work. - ES-next compliance
TypeScript give you a taste of future JavaScript, with typing.
TypeScript Essentials
Why use TypeScript, good and bad reasons
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https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-shocking-secret-about-static-types-514d39bf30a3
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https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/19/to-type-or-not-to-type-quantifying-detectable-bugs-in-javascript/
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https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Standalone-Server-%28tsserver%29
- https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/