Why I'm Going 100% TypeScript in OSS and Teaching

Hello friends it is January 9th, this is a Saturday and I guess I'm

recording this on a Saturday, okay, so um, I wanted to talk about today

type script and why I am starting to think that I'm gonna be doing my

material and typescription stuff so first of all, I started using

TypeScript right toward the end of my time at PayPal we had been using flow

for a long time and and I liked it it was okay, but it was very clear that

TypeScript was gonna be the winner of this game and so I decided let's

switch over to type.

Script so I made PayPal scripts completely. TypeScript supporting project

and everything and and then the template I made default to type script and

everything so like I was all in and I type script the PayPal or PP React.

React component library that I was working on was completely in TypeScript

and then I went full-time educator and I stopped using TypeScript and the

reason that I have never used or I had never used TypeScript in my open

source or in my instructional material is because I didn't wantIt to be a

barrier for people So with open source I didn't want it to be the sort of

thing that people couldn't contribute to open source because they didn't

know TypeScript.

And for my my educational content, I didn't want to make it so that people

couldn't enjoy my educational content because they couldn't they didn't

know type script. And so like it would just drastically limit the number of

people who could benefit. So a few things have changed for one for the

whole time with my open source stuff.

I always use that as an excuse like no, I don't want to be a barrier for

people butLike I knew that was bogus because anybody who's going to

contribute to my project also needs to write some tests and that's

basically what TypeScript is So they are going to need to learn how to

write the tests and so yeah, it ends up being six is anyway, like if they

don't know how to write test they're going to commit it and will help them

write the test that'll be the same with text script.

And for my educational content, I talked with Ryan Florence about this and

he told me that a long time ago, they went full on TypeScript and a big

reason was because a lot of them were like a lot of the people they were

teaching were already using TypeScript and also it like you don't have.

To go full on TypeScript on the educational material so like the people who

don't know TypeScript they don't have to add types if you configure

TypeScript correctly and then those of you or those people who are using

TypeScript regularly and know it they'll get the editor hints and

everything and and even if you're not using TypeScript yourself, if you're

consuming an API that exposes types you get editor hints and everything's

really nice.

So it ends up being a better experience for everybody and so that's why I'm

gonna be switching completely over to TypeScript and I'll probably have

something there to help people who don't know TypeScript yet as well. So

anyway, hope you have aSplendid day. Bye.