The only real difference between JavaScript and Typescript is Typescript makes it so you think about the variable you're using. With JavaScript you don't really care if that 1 is a number or a string (since all variables are natively strings anyway) with Typescript now you're paying a little added attention to that kind of thing. It's a good practice and way of thinking to pick up. You're still learning JavaScript functions and whatnot but now you just have to think about what you're doing with these variable types.I'm about 70% done with JavaScript. Should I go straight to Typescript next?
Is it that different from JavaScript?
Do most companies use frameworks or is it good to know pure JavaScript?
I've only seen one company (out of 7) use pure JavaScript, and it was using Node.Js for backend development. The code was complete garbage btw. No structure at all. I had to completely rewrite the back end AND the front end and was on the first thing smoking because it was an extreme programming shop and one of my pairs was waaaaay too trash and unseasoned to be drawing as many lines in the sand as she was. She needed to be absorbing these coding practices, not snitching to management about me coming in early to write code so that I'd already have an argument and could clearly demonstrate clean code piff before she could formulate her dumbass thoughts
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