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Re:Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, E... by eksemplar on Monday October 15, 2018 @10:17AM (#18219855)
I agree but I’d pick graphql for that instead of typescript.
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Re:Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, E... by jeremychone on Monday October 15, 2018 @11:24AM (#18220460)
Not sure TypeScript and GraphQL are mutually exclusive.
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Re:Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, E... by eksemplar on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:51PM (#18222541)
They aren’t, but graphql would give you safer types in your api than typescript.
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Re:Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, E... by jeremychone on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:44PM (#18259903)
Not sure one gives you safer typing than the other in absolute. They both have a different context/purpose. TypeScript is great for typing a code base for function calls type of APIs, whereas GraphQL is great to express types for inter-system communication (usually over HTTP).

Using GraphQL to type your in-process API would be overkilled and would require quite a bit of contortionism, and while you can share same TypeScript types between your end-points interfaces (and can be a good first step), inter-process communication is better expressed with something like GraphQL or Protobuf.

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