[woutr_be]

I recently updated our small node backend to Typescript and it's absolutely great to work with. Even backend people who come from strict languages Scala / Kotlin / Java, are now able to use and understand this.

I've been doing the same thing on our Angular app, but it has become clear that most of the frontend developers here lack the understanding on type safety, they're just unable to comprehend it for some reason. I've seen PRs that were just completely wrong because they couldn't understand how to do things correctly now that it's all typed. These are purely frontend people tho, they hardly work with any other language than JavaScript. But I don't consider Typescript a massive change from JavaScript, it just adds typing to it. Which any programmer should be able to comprehend.

Personally for me it has been great, it forced me to refactor really bad code, because I noticed that multiple methods kept returning different things, so the backend codebase is a lot cleaner now. Tests also have improved a lot because of all this.

Perhaps it might be worth trying to figure out how your team thinks about this, they might just be worried that they won't be able to work on it.