Are you using TypeScript in your projects but feel like you’re just scratching the surface of its potential? You’re not alone! Milena Radi

TypeScript isn’t just JavaScript with types – and it has a lot of potential

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2024-10-01 21:00:06

Are you using TypeScript in your projects but feel like you’re just scratching the surface of its potential? You’re not alone!

Milena Radivojevic is a Global Developer Content Specialist at Infobip. At work, she writes, and in her spare time, she reads.

It’s true: many developers are puzzled by some of TypeScript’s more advanced features and nuances. But here’s the exciting part: many are fired up and ready to dive deep into the incredible potential TypeScript has to offer!

That was one of the highlights of Mrina Sugosh‘s talk at this year’s Shift Conference in Zadar, and we jumped at the chance to have her spill some of her best TypeScript secrets with us.

Mrina: A common misconception is that TypeScript is just “JavaScript with types.” Developers often overlook its advanced features like generics, union types, and type inference, which help build scalable, maintainable code.

Another misconception is that TypeScript is too rigid for smaller projects, whereas its gradual adoption model makes it flexible for any codebase size.