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Brief Advantages and Disadvantages of TypeScript.

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1. Advantages and Disadvantages of TypeScript 2016/05/29 Tetsu Yamazaki Web engineer at motinpicture
2. About TypeScript
3. Overview Advantages  static type checking  syntax familiarity  developing as open source Disadvantages  low quality of type definitions  compiling trouble  difficulty for js lovers
4. advantages
5. Static type checking TypeScript compiler will check the type. Editors strongly help. We can develop a javascript application more safely than plain js.
6. Syntax familiarity TypeScript is basically javascript. Its syntax is so similar to languages like Java, C#, php... It’s easy to code especially for web developers on a server-side.
7. Developing as open source TypeScript is an open source maintained by Microsoft. It is developing and is updated quite often.
8. disadvantages
9. Low quality of type definitions Type definitions are needed as “.d.ts”files. Definitions for third-party libraries sometimes does not exist or is not enough if exist. We have to code definitions by ourselves in some cases.
10. Compiling trouble A compile step is required. We code typescript and deploy javascript. This step may be troublesome according to an environment for deploy and project requirements.
11. Difficulty for js lovers It takes some costs to adapt to typescript for developers who loves raw javascript because of its high flexibility.
12. Overview Advantages  static type checking  syntax familiarity  developing as open source Disadvantages  low quality of type definitions  compiling trouble  difficulty for js lovers