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Discussion on: Documenting My Journey From Waitress to Full Stack Web Developer

 
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Mike Talbot ⭐

With TypeScript - learn it that way, from the beginning. My frustration with TypeScript is that I know the data structure or pattern I want, and I know how to do it in Javascript right now, but I've got to struggle to find the right way of expressing the types and I end up with a ton of code when a little would have done. That's just because of my route, TS is much easier to reason with and forces you to build good structures etc - I just don't think in those structures I think in the underlying JS elements. I wish TS had been there for me as I moved my focus from C# to JS, but it wasn't.

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Mari Ullom

That is what I have been hearing. I have decided to focus mainly on TypeScript, but for the few small things I already know and need quickly I've just used JavaScript. I don't know TypeScript well enough yet to implement it more than just in basic beginner code lol.