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TypeScript

The JavaScript that warns you before your users do.

TypeScript is a layer on top of JavaScript that adds a type system. In practice you describe the shape of your data — a customer has a name, an email, a list of orders — and the tool continuously checks that the code honours that contract. Mistakes surface while you type, in the editor, instead of surfacing in production in front of a customer.

What it changes day to day

  • Typos and forgotten fields are flagged before the file is even saved
  • Changing a data structure immediately lists every place that needs updating
  • The editor suggests the right fields and docs, which speeds up the whole team
  • A developer joining the project reads the types and understands the domain without guessing

Where the payoff is clearest

Software meant to last

On a product living three years or more, most of the cost is not the first write but every change after it. Types make those changes safe.

Teams of several people

When more than one person touches the same code, types act as a shared contract and prevent silent misunderstandings.

Complex business rules

Billing, inventory, permissions: once the rules pile up, types stop impossible combinations from travelling through the system.

When it is not the right call

TypeScript adds a build step and a learning curve. On a throwaway landing page or a three-day prototype, that investment does not pay for itself. It also will not protect you from business-logic errors: a correct type can describe a wrong rule.

Where we stand

We write all application code in TypeScript, in strict mode. That is not an aesthetic preference: it is what lets us pick a project back up a year later and change it without re-reading everything.

A codebase to take over or harden?

We audit your codebase and tell you what a gradual TypeScript migration would change, without a rewrite.

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