ts-migrate VS TypeStat

Code transformation tools (ts-migrate) to automate tedious parts (renaming imports, updating require → import).

Update tsconfig. Replace the content of tsconfig.json with the values from tsconfig.base.json.

Airbnb converted many millions of lines gradually using automation and wrote about it:

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/ts-migrate-a-tool-for-...

And also open sourced the tooling:

https://github.com/airbnb/ts-migrate

Are you migrating with ts-migrate?

When you migrate your entire project over to TypeScript, errors like "undefined is not a function", syntax errors, or reference errors should no longer exist in your codebase. Thankfully, this is not as daunting as it sounds. Migrating your entire Node.js application to TypeScript can be done incrementally so that you can start reaping the rewards immediately in crucial parts of the codebase. You can also adopt a tool like ts-migrate if you intend to perform the migration in one go.

Flow to ts — helps to produce raw migration from Flow to TS files and reduces monkey job. TS migrate — helps convert JS files to Typescript files. A great introduction can be found here.

💡 I typed it using ts-migrate ts-migrate is a tool I strongly recommend. It's been developed by Airbnb to help to migrate easily JavaScript projects to TypeScript.

When you decide to migrate, I recommend checking https://github.com/airbnb/ts-migrate may speed few migration steps (but it wont solve missing types/interfaces)

You can use AirBnb's ts-migrate tool or try a more direct tactic following the Migrating from JavaScript guide.

Sharing https://github.com/JoshuaKGoldberg/TypeStat as it sounds similar and you may not have heard about it 👍

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