5 Unexpected Things About TypeScript

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  • TypeScript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  • TypeScript type system is Turing complete which means it can implement any logic, for example, computing Fibonacci sequence. Does that mean your types need to be that complex? I don’t think so.

  • redux

    A JS library for predictable global state management

  • My impression is that TypeScript’s complexity is caused by JS libs created years before TS got popular — Lodash, Ramda, Redux, and many many more. These libs were designed without keeping static types in mind, that’s why their typings, created afterwards, are very challenging to understand. Good code is a code easy to read — that’s why you’d better keep your types simple.

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  • types-ramda

    Discontinued [DEPRECATED] merged into https://github.com/types/npm-ramda

  • My impression is that TypeScript’s complexity is caused by JS libs created years before TS got popular — Lodash, Ramda, Redux, and many many more. These libs were designed without keeping static types in mind, that’s why their typings, created afterwards, are very challenging to understand. Good code is a code easy to read — that’s why you’d better keep your types simple.

  • ramda

    :ram: Practical functional Javascript

  • My impression is that TypeScript’s complexity is caused by JS libs created years before TS got popular — Lodash, Ramda, Redux, and many many more. These libs were designed without keeping static types in mind, that’s why their typings, created afterwards, are very challenging to understand. Good code is a code easy to read — that’s why you’d better keep your types simple.

  • lodash

    A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance, & extras.

  • My impression is that TypeScript’s complexity is caused by JS libs created years before TS got popular — Lodash, Ramda, Redux, and many many more. These libs were designed without keeping static types in mind, that’s why their typings, created afterwards, are very challenging to understand. Good code is a code easy to read — that’s why you’d better keep your types simple.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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