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Learn TypeScript from A to Z πŸš€

Jagroop Singh on December 06, 2024

TypeScript is a powerful tool for JavaScript developers looking to add static typing to their projects. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced...
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Peter Vivo

My short answer is: because TS improving developer life with give power to work with typesafe way.
Long answer is: don't need to write TS directly, JSDoc still working without using another languages instead of JS. My detailed arguing to JSDoc

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Ravin Rau

Development Experience and Productivity
Type information makes your IDE much smarter - you get better autocomplete, inline documentation, and can catch errors before you even run the code. Imagine having a co-pilot that constantly checks your work and makes suggestions.

Safer Refactoring
When you need to make changes across a large codebase, TypeScript acts as a safety net. Change the shape of an object, and TypeScript will show you every place that needs to be updated. In JavaScript, you'd have to catch these issues at runtime.

Better Design Patterns
TypeScript enables more advanced patterns like discriminated unions and generics that are harder to implement safely in JavaScript.

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caga

This is called actual teaching. @jagroop2001 you are doing a lot for DEV community. I really love your content from the very first day.

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Jagroop Singh

Thanks @paxnw !!

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Martins Gouveia

Your post is awesome πŸ”₯. Congrats.

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Jagroop Singh

Thanks @martygo

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Sivasankaran

It explains very simply.
Thanks for this post @jagroop2001

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Jagroop Singh

Your welcome @siva678 !!

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Wizard

Just amazing, it was a quick refresh for me

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Jagroop Singh

Thanks @wizard798

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2PR

Nice!

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Jagroop Singh

Thanks @2pr-io