Typed JavaScript with TypeScript and Flow with Jeff Morrison and Anders Hejlsberg

Description:

Adding typings to JavaScript is becoming more and more popular. We're going to chat with the creators of TypeScript and Flow to discuss the why and how behind typed JavaScript.

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Links, Picks, and Tips:

Jeff Morrison@lbljeffmo

Links

• A good introduction to variance: Covariance and Contravariance by Mike Ash

Tips

• Have a "just get it working" mentality. Then clean it up after

Picks

• OCaml
• Reason
• Real World OCaml

Anders Hejlsberg@ahejlsberg

Tips

• Follow your passion. Go Play. Write some new code. That’s how you do your best work. Try to enjoy what you’re doing.
• There are lots of people coming to JS now. Lots of OOP programmings flowing into the ecosystem. JS can be a great FP language though. There’s a lot you can learn from studying FP in JS.

Kent C. Dodds@kentcdodds

Tips

• No matter how well you know something, keep your mind open to learn even more about it.

Picks

• React Rally 2016 Notes Wiki
• React events in depth live tomorrow!
• husky (used to use ghooks)

Dan Abramov@dan_abramov

Picks

• Jest 15.0: New Defaults for Jest
• Grokking Algorithms

Brian Lonsdorf@drboolean

Tips

• Functions should be input to output. Type systems help a lot more when you compose this way.
• Stay away from Object|Any :)

Picks

• Jon Sterling - LambdaConf 2015 - Type Theory and its Meaning Explanations
• Chris Taylor - Algebra of Algebraic Data Types

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