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You IDE should check the types for you.

This might worked on solo projects but if you’re working with people, I’d highly recommend enforcing type checking of some sort. People will ignore the IDE error messages.

> People will ignore the IDE error messages.

Then they get caught in code review at least in any team I work.

No way I accept any unnecessary "disable lint" statement in a PR.

Also (of course, since it is default) the CI build system breaks if they commit and push without ignores, so no, trying to slide it past me doesn't work either.

It's not linting, it's typechecking which is slightly different. Linting won't catch type errors. All I'm recommending is to add a typecheck to the CI system so no one sneaks in a broken type (I couldn't recognize a broken type in a PR personally).

Yup. Vscode has built-in Typescript support so that does all the type checking as you go.

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