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Have many front ends are actually written in vanilla JS? I thought that in many cases TypeScript is actually used instead.

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Perhaps it's a vocal minority or something that is giving this perception. The reality is far more projects are written in javascript than TypeSrcipt. Even greenfield projects.

A lot. TypeScript is becoming popular these days, but there are still a lot more projects being written in JavaScript than TypeScript.

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