---
title: "Understanding TypeScript’s benefits and pitfalls"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/understanding-typescript-s-benefits-and-pitfalls-dkwum-r3j
source_url: https://blog.logrocket.com/understanding-typescripts-benefits-pitfalls/
type: article
source: "LogRocket"
published: 2022-10-04T16:04:51.667Z
updated: 2022-10-04T16:04:51.665Z
tags: ["javascript", "typescript", "vscode"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 17
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Understanding TypeScript’s benefits and pitfalls

**[LogRocket](https://daily.dev/sources/logrocket)** · 10 min read · 17 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

VS Code comes with inbuilt TypeScript intelligence. TypeScript is telling us that event.target could be null — not based on our code, but on the definitions themselves. It is possible for the Event’s target property to be null (for example, a directly created Event object with no target given) This works in the browser and all is well.

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