The New TypeScript Handbook

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TLDR: New constraints on how we approach teaching in the handbook / Omits trying to teach JS concepts / New compiler-backed code samples give better tools for describing how things work / PDF and Epub files for offline

TS is something I can live without. Been with Angular for the last 5 years. Now using Vue2, without TS. The productivity increase is noticable. Pumped out 2 sites with Vue that would've taken me months with Angular.

But that's not the point I guess.

I was used to "dynamic language", did PHP for over a decade and you know I really don't need the overhead of defining a type for every little variable.

If you prefer JS, that's perfectly valid. But it's worth noting you can adopt TS incrementally, you absolutely do not need to define a type for every little variable. You could pretty much write an entire project in the same way and just use types for the most complex part.

As someone that's been using Vue since pre v1, I think Vue 3 with TS is a massive upgrade.

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