4 Future Challenges for #typescript
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Typed #javascript brings a new level of sanity to web development. Better autocomplete, refactoring with a lot more confidence, less bugs — having a typechecker is great. There’s several typed language flavours that transpile to javascript. There’s TypeScript, Flow, Elm, ClojureScript, Reason, Kotlin, etc. Most popular of them, is TypeScript.While I think TypeScript is great — it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. Here’s the four biggest challenges I see TypeScript facing in the future.Configuring TypeScript can be overwhelmingThis is a general problem in the JavaScript world. Build systems are not easy to figure out for newcomers. Webpack being impossible to configure is a running joke, and there’s also babel — and now TypeScript, which comes with its own setup difficulties.I think that this (...)
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