Comment by madeofpalk
3 years ago
> because they are way, way out on the edge in ways that stress Typescript compilers
I don't think this is true at all. Probably the main reason people typecheck js with jsdoc annotations is because they don't want a TS compile step.
Nodejs ES modules, and typescript, make it more complicated that it needs to be to write JS specifically for nodejs/cli scripts (not bundling to run in the browser). I now just prefer to // @ts-check my js files when writing node scripts.
> Probably the main reason people typecheck js with jsdoc annotations is because they don't want a TS compile step.
Right, I agree--because it's slow. Like AFAIK the tooling roundtrip is why Svelte/SvelteKit made the change. For normal projects, you don't have that same problem.
> for nodejs/cli scripts
I just use ts-node with the ESM loader. It's drop-in, for my purposes at least. What problems are you seeing?