[henriquez]

I think TypeScript on the frontend and JavaScript on the backend is workable. Most modern frontend frameworks are TypeScript-native, and you really benefit from a lot of the hand-holding that the real-time static analysis + your framework extensions in VSCode provide.

On the other hand, in most cases backend code is dumb and simple; in basically every company I’ve worked for it’s an API that just does CRUD stuff through an ORM to the database. There’s not a whole lot that can go wrong if you keep package dependencies light and JavaScript is just a simpler option. You can even use a basic text editor if you’re a real pro.

I disagree with the article that it’s such a vastly different build environment or developer required. Different tools for different jobs works fine for me.