In the first episode of our SNIPPETS series, which we deliver to you with a promise of all episodes being not longer than 10 minutes, Marek talks about migrating the code to TypeScript, the ways to do that right and safe, but also explaining why it is a business decision, not only a technical one.
In this episode you will hear about:
🎼 00:00 Intro and series introduction
👉 00:30 TypeScript was not great at the beginning
👉 01:27 Personal disclaimer about Marek and TypeScript
👉 02:00 TypeScript and business :moneybag:
👉 02:30 How to justify the cost of the migration?
👉 03:03 Why it’s worth to await a promise? 🔐
👉 04:30 What are the not obvious benefits of having types in your code?
👉 05:35 How did the AirBnb benefit from implementing TypeScript in their organisation? 🛏
👉 05:57 Big picture tips and tricks on coding part of this process 💻
👉 08:12 Sad information about TS and quality of the code 😭
👉 08:29 Outro 👋
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Links mentioned in the episode:
https://twitter.com/remohjansen/status/1093815648566894594
https://marekurbanowicz.medium.com/migrating-large-codebase-to-typescript-do-it-right-from-the-beginning-7109a80b2a3d
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