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I could definitely see the benefit of TS on a giant, modern app with a big team. However, at my job I am a solo developer on literally dozens of smaller JS projects of varying age that I need to keep running essentially forever. Typescript is enough of a pain in my npm build process that I just ditched it long ago. The fewer dev dependencies the better for me personally.

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I also work on small apps, and like it there. I needed a day to set up TS the way I wanted, and I don't use strict mode. This way I can have TS check the few places I feel it's most useful, and not bother with the rest.

I feel confident making small components, and functions. But I like adding types to form data and product objects, especially when decorating product objects. Otherwise I'm prone to get confused as to whether the props have been decorated already, or not, maybe check for it? TS just feels really smooth sometimes, but admittedly I am not using it in strict mode.

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