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0 pointskowdermeister9y ago0 comments

If you are not building large applications then TS is counter productive. Just consider the extra compilation step, the dependencies and obfuscated source code.

While it can be tremendous help, calling it a best practice misses the point.

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SomeCallMeTim9y ago

The code output is really clean; I wouldn't call it obfuscated. Especially when source mapping works just about everywhere.

And having ES2015 features (+async/await) is very useful: var should be deprecated, arrow functions should be standard, etc.

Tiny projects? Sure, do whatever you want. But I've started switching even my one-file, 2-3 screens of code Node servers over to TypeScript, and it's not only useful, it accelerates development by 100% simply because you don't need to run your code to know that you've got the types correct.

I stand by "best practice."

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