[hath995]

I start all my server side projects in TypeScript lately. There is enough support that it is actually very easy to get started. ts-node, npm @types, and many packages natively supporting ts help.

The browser is a crazy environment and adds difficulty, but I find my server code can very strictly typed. The nodejs type definitions are good and if you pick an ORM library with good typescript support then both the in memory data structures and database objects can be well typed.

The build step with typescript is basically negated by ts-node for the server. Alternatively, by using tsc --watch and some clever indirection I've enabled hot reloading for most of my server code. So just to be clear, I have types helping me code using vs-code, I save and immediately see changes on the server.

If you know the tools well and how to set things up then TS + node can provide a better developer environment than many languages.