TypeScript support added to Create React App

Re:TypeScript support added to Create React App by qudat on Monday October 22, 2018 @10:25PM (#18280295)

If people are not onboard with the the idea then it might be an uphill battle. There is value in TS but it will be frustrating at times, you will get resistance from other developers, and every once in awhile it will not feel worth it.

The other issue is that if people don't know what they are doing with TS, then imo it's worthless. I don't know your experience level with TS, but it is a non-trivial problem to build types such that it provides all the benefits you describe.

It is, in a lot of ways, a different language with its own set of problems to "solve."

Tread lightly, because adopting TS could be a blessing or a massive time sink for people not familiar with it.

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Re:TypeScript support added to Create React App by netcraft on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:16AM (#18280677)

I wouldnt call myself an expert by any means, and sure there are lots of complicated types out there - but I feel we would get 90% of the benefits if all we did was 1) turn on the compiler in the first place 2) document the argument and return types of functions and 3) build some general interfaces of objects we are passing around.

If we bailed out and typed anything more complicated as `any` it would still be a huge improvement over writing vanilla js IMO.

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Re:TypeScript support added to Create React App by sibeliuss on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:19AM (#18281112)

Yeah, there are so many crazy benefits just by naming your file `.ts` and writing vanilla JS. People can go as lightly or as deeply as they want once they understand how tsc works.

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