A Case for

TypeScript

Tyler Graf

Web Dev

Tree

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What is Typescript?

Dynamic Type

let name = 'Tyler'
name = 1

let name: string = 'Tyler'
name = 1 // TypeError

Strict Type

Focused on Values

Why?

StackOverflow Popularity

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-technologies-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages

5th

Github Popularity

https://octoverse.github.com/#top-languages-over-the-years

4th

15% Fewer Bugs

https://earlbarr.com/publications/typestudy.pdf

Runtime

Compile time

Open Source

All new Google projects (Angular, lit)
React
React Router

FamilySearch will adopt TypeScript

*Don't start yet

https://space-quiz.vercel.app

Demo

Review

Stability of Code
null Checking
Code Organization
intellisense