TypeScript is nearly half as popular as JavaScript for React apps

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Also worth mentioning that TS npm download is greater than React consistently.

http://www.npmtrends.com/typescript-vs-react-vs-vue-vs-flow-...

I've used Flow in 2016 and getting it to work on code editors was a huge pain. Coworkers asked me weekly how to fix their environment to get it to work.

In 2017 I introduced TS to the codebase and never looked back. It just works™.

Indeed I have seen more and more people adopt TypeScript for all kinds of JS projects.

It is one of the things I have noted to look into next too.

> I've used Flow in 2016 and getting it to work on code editors was a huge pain.

Typescript also has support for js-doc style type declarations, at a basic level, IMHO it's less painful to use than Flow. Does Flow even has a compiler that doesn't rely on OCaml?

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/JSDoc-support-i...

You would want TypeScript, if you want to refactor even little bit of your code.

I actually use JSX without React thanks to Typescript, I wrote an HTML builder myself (anybody can write one, it's easy) and it's quite handy since I don't have to rely on any framework/view library anymore.

You don't need Typescript to use JSX without React. Plugging my own isomorphic-jsx project: https://github.com/TheKnarf/isomorphic-jsx

> You don't need Typescript to use JSX without React. Plugging my own isomorphic-jsx project: https://github.com/TheKnarf/isomorphic-jsx

Yes but since I use Typescript static analysis as well: 2 birds, one stone.

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