TypeScript forms a fundamental part of our frontend architecture across multiple projects, reflecting our commitment to Clean Code principles and type safety. This strategic choice elevates our development practices beyond plain JavaScript, providing enhanced code maintainability and better tooling support through static type checking. While TypeScript represents a significant improvement over JavaScript in terms of type safety, it still falls short of the robust type systems found in languages like Java or Kotlin.
Despite its limitations, such as the ability to circumvent type checking in certain scenarios (for example, when handling routing parameters in Vue Router), TypeScript remains our pragmatic choice for frontend development in the current ecosystem. While we acknowledge these constraints and would welcome alternatives offering stronger type guarantees, TypeScript currently represents the best available compromise between developer experience, ecosystem compatibility, and type safety in the JavaScript environment. This practical approach has served our projects well, even if it doesn't provide the ideal level of type safety we aspire to achieve.