Typescript has been around for quite some time and brings some pretty nice syntactic sugar. Dont think of Typescript as a different language as such, typescript

Typescript has been around for quite some time and brings some pretty nice syntactic sugar. Dont think of Typescript as a different language as such, typescript is a superset of javascript, so it if you can do it in Javascript, you can do it in Typescript. Types are optional, so you can just write vanilla javascript and that is valid typescript. It can help catch bugs early with type checking, but the main reason why I think typescript is great is the tooling. Typings allow an editor/IDE to understand your project and can provide you with much better suggestions, information and great support for refactoring etc.. But it does require you to have a build step, where ES5 javascript does not. If it is a small project then probably just stick to Javascript. For larger ones I personally would choose Typescript