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This episode of DejaVue includes not only knowledge but also a certain degree of magic, as Alex and Michael meet up with the one and only TypeScript Wizard Matt Pocock. Together, they talk about how he became a full-time educator and what the pros and cons are, then of course discussing everything around TypeScript - from Types vs. Interfaces, any vs. unknown, Matt's ts-reset library, Flappy Bird in TypeScript and more amazing nuggets
Enjoy the episode!
Chapters
- (00:00) - Welcome to DejaVue
- (02:08) - How Matt came to join DejaVue
- (03:03) - Becoming a full time TypeScript educator
- (05:10) - What do you miss when doing full time content creation?
- (08:16) - Being an employee vs. self-employed
- (14:42) - Why using TypeScript?
- (19:59) - TypeScript only for libraries?
- (22:40) - Migrating JS to TS
- (28:08) - The build/compile step
- (33:20) - Types vs. Interfaces
- (37:19) - Declaration Merging pitfalls
- (41:35) - TS Reset and TS 5.5 improvements
- (48:25) - TypeScript enforcing a way of programming
- (51:18) - any vs. unknown
- (54:25) - Wrapping up
Links and Resources
- $10 off for Michael's Nuxt Tips Collection* with this link and the code DEJAVUE
- 10% discount for the vue.js de Conf in Bonn, Germany* with code DEJAVUE
- Matt's Truck stream
- Badass.dev
- NeverThrow
- Sentry migrating to TS
- Stripe migrating to TS
- TS Reset
- Dan Vanderkam's PR to TS
- TS Flappy Bird
- Total TypeScript
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