- yeah our project uses typescript
- look inside
- any
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Typescript only prevents typing bugs... why did they have so many typing bugs?
Typo'd property names when accessing was the biggest one. Assuming a property was one data type instead of another and not casting or handling it appropriately. Accidentally calling something like it's a method when it isn't.
I ran a bunch of plugins on my end to help with some of that, but many of the older or stubborn devs refused and would refuse anything but, like, vim with no add-ons.
I believe you don’t have to actually use (meaning “compile from”) typescript to profit from it. If you maul the compiler options hard enough, you might get it to analyze JavaScript and provide type checking.
That's what I did locally.
But a lot of this JavaScript wasn't even transpiled/compiled for prod, just uploaded to a bucket and referenced directly. It was painful.
Elderly team mates with the flexibility of concrete, yay!
Oof. I guess you can use typescript to make up for lack of IDE but it sounds like you had bigger problems anyway.