E23 | A Conversation about TypeScript | Jeffrey Parrish

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In this episode, our conversation is focused on TypeScript, how it differs from JavaScript and how you can get started today coding it with my guest Jeffrey Parrish, a web applications developer who’s been creating web apps in JavaScript, NodeJS and TypeScript since 2006.

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Questions Asked

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• Tell us about your background
  
• Do you consider yourself a full stack developer?
  
• What do you enjoy the most, front end or back end development?
  
• What front end framework are you using?
  
• Does React, Angular and Vue support Typescript?
  
• Define TypeScript for us.
  
• What is a transpiler and how is it different than a compiler?
  
• How do transpilers work?
  
• What are the main differences between TypeScript and JavaScript?
  
• Why does TypeScript exist?
  
• Tell us about Intellisense and TypeScript.
  
• What's the biggest benefit to using TypeScript?
  
• Which IDEs support TypeScript?
  
• Is there a trend of frameworks moving into TypeScript support?
  
• Why is typing an important feature to have in JavaScript?
  
• Does TypeScript help developers write code with less bugs?
  
• Give us an example of typing error in TypeScript.
  
• What is the "any" type in TypeScript?
  
• Why does TypeScript offer the "any" type?
  
• What is the "unknown" type?
  
• What are type guards and how do you implement them?
  
• What are some of the disadvantages of TypeScript?
  
• What kind of things can you configure in a TypeScript configuration file?
  
• Can you configure TypeScript to not accept the "any" type?
  
• How do you configure TypeScript for both front end and back end development?
  
• How can we get started with TypeScript?
  
• What are components in TypeScript?
  
• What are user defined types in TypeScript?
  
• What are built in types in TypeScript?
  
• What are mutation types?
  
• Can you take a Javascript project and convert it into TypeScript?
  
• How are variables created in TypeScript?
  
• Is the best practice to strictly type a variable in TypeScript?
  
• How are class modules different from components?
  
• How is scope handled across modules and classes?
  
• What are access modifiers?
  
• What are generics?
  
• What's the future of TypeScript holds in your opinion?
  
• What would you like to see removed in future versions of TypeScript?
  

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Reference Links

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• Jeffrey’s Website (http://jeffreyparrish.net/)
  
• NPM (https://www.npmjs.com/)
  
• TypeScript (https://www.typescriptlang.org/)
  
• RedMonk Index (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/07/27/language-rankings-6-20/)