I know this subject has been brought up before, but I just want to add my +1 to this: It would be really nice if there were an option to create new apps with JavaScript instead of TypeScript. I’ve seen/implemented the code changes in the documentation that tells you how to convert the TS app to a JS app, but it would be nice if this could be achieved with just an option to the script that creates the app.
Having worked on large codebases, I understand the need for stricter types - but I’ve also seen most languages that compile to JavaScript come and go. Much-talked-about languages such as CoffeeScript and hundreds of others are now used by almost no one - and it’s possible that the same thing will happen to TypeScript, given that ECMAScript will probably implement optional stricter typing natively in a few years, rendering TypeScript obsolete.
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