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    1. a thing people don't like to talk about is that Javascript is a pretty good language & you can write some pretty nice feeling front-end stuff without using any libraries at all
  1. …in reply to @v21
    (this is a slight misrepresentation of how I work, if I am writing more than, ooh, 300 lines of code I will get Typescript set up. and maybe some packages if I need something specific. but you don't gotta!)
    1. …in reply to @v21
      final secret: if you write some [ok, ok, slightly cumbersome] JSDoc statements at the top of a few key functions & objects, and you're using a smart enough IDE, you get 90% of the utility of Typescript