Typescript. What is it? How does it help you write better code? Will it help you sleep better at night?

Jared is a lead engineer at The Palmer Group, a strategy, design, and engineering firm.
There he uses TypeScript every day to keep code sturdy and maintainable.

Chantastic asks Jared what we need to know to get a little TypeScript into our apps.
They discuss the joys and pains of Typescript in 2019 and how it compares to languages like Reason, Ocaml, Fable, and Elm.

Featuring

• Jared Palmer — Twitter, Github, Consultancy, Website
• Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Notes & Links

• TypeScript
• Moving To React Suspense - Jared Palmer - React Conf 2018
• npm and the future of JavaScript - Laurie Voss - JSConf US 2018
• The State of the Octoverse: top programming languages of 2018
• flow
• Build Your Own Formik Using React Hooks with Jared Palmer (*egghead membership required)
• @babel/preset-typescript
• Realytics/fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin
• Adding TypeScript to Create React App
• TypeStrong/ts-loader
• s-panferov/awesome-typescript-loader
• rollup-plugin-typescript2
• [RFC] Migrate Jest to TypeScript
• tsdx — Zero-config TypeScript package development
• Deno — A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio
• Reason — Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.
• Ocaml — OCaml is an industrial strength programming language supporting functional, imperative and object-oriented styles
• Fable — The compiler that emits JavaScript you can be proud of!
• elm — A delightful language for reliable webapps. Generate JavaScript with great performance and no runtime exceptions.
• Swagger
• Swagger Codegen
• Palantir Technologies — All the TypeScript projects
• Shopify Polaris — Our design system helps us work together to build a great experience for all of Shopify’s merchants.

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