On: The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems

[spankalee]

The problems start with frameworks that require custom compilers and non-standard module systems.

If you use vanilla JS in standard modules most of this goes away.

[jitl → spankalee]

Well then you need to use vanilla JS, which seems to be widely regarded as not great “at scale”. I certainly will never go back to JS from TS. Fearless refactoring is worth slogging through all the JSON config soup.

[tobyhinloopen → jitl]

Fearless refactoring? What about tests?

Sure TS helps, but tests are “better”

[Tajnymag → tobyhinloopen]

Tests and static typing are not excluding each other. Best would be to have both.