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culilast Sunday at 11:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Because AirBnB's ESLint config has been burned into my brain I almost only use arrow functions. I also use generics extremely often. It's definitely a little more clunky but I haven't run into anything you can do in TypeScript that you can't do in JSDoc.

JSDoc also allows you to type stuff in-line. For example I often have to type an empty array like so:

  const [books, setBooks] = useState(/** @type {Book[]} */([]));
If you have a tangible example of a problem you've run into, I'd love to walk through it.

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g947olast Monday at 12:16 AM

JavaScript example:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?filetype=js#code/PTAEAE...

Almost equivalent typescript code:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/C4TwDgpgBA6glsAFg...

(I had to make it a little bit different from the JS code to make it compile)

(Well, this is not exactly about arrow function I guess. I remembered that part wrong.)

Note that I cannot make the type check in JS code to pass. Whatever I do, there is always a error. Meanwhile, it does not take much to TS code to work.

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