---
title: "Moving from JavaScript to TypeScript"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/moving-from-javascript-to-typescript-wmk4oaau
source_url: https://javascript.plainenglish.io/moving-from-javascript-to-typescript-262b23d35f15
type: article
source: "JSK"
author: "Andrew Baisden"
published: 2022-02-15T11:52:00.293Z
updated: 2022-02-15T11:52:00.299Z
tags: ["general-programming", "javascript", "nodejs", "typescript"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 27
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Moving from JavaScript to TypeScript

**[JSK](https://daily.dev/sources/jsk)** · [@andrewbaisden](https://daily.dev/andrewbaisden) · 6 min read · 27 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

JavaScript is still one of the most popular programming languages in the world. TypeScript aims to solve a lot of the problems that JavaScript has which makes the language a lot closer to other modern programming languages. The better tooling available in TypeScript provides a far better experience when writing code. There are pros and cons to each method.

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**@necolanch** · 1 upvotes

> Thanks for this! Gives me more confidence looking into learning TypeScript.

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