> I didn’t feel Typescript added substantial value and even worse, we noticed that our coding speed was reduced. With Typescript things that were really easy to

> I didn’t feel Typescript added substantial value and even worse, we noticed that our coding speed was reduced. With Typescript things that were really easy to do on Javascript like defining a simple object were more complicated to do on Typescript. I highly recommend you to read the following articles before you start using Typescript. It is not the right solution for everyone. If you read the linked article, it's using a graph of the number of GitHub issues labelled "bug" to justify that languages with strong static types don't reduce the number of bugs which isn't meaningful or convincing... > The main thing we didn’t like and we still don’t like about Angular 2 is Typescript. I know Angular 2 can be used with Javascript but again, the decision to use Typescript was already taken and from what I understand, using pure Javascript with Angular 2 is not the ideal way you should be using Angular 2. In any case, getting rid of Typescript meant a full rewrite of the project. ... > I still remember how easy to work with Angular 1 was, it certainly had it’s own problems, but it was nice to work with it compared to other frameworks, something that Angular 2 lost somewhere on the way. I recently moved from Angular 1 because it didn't work well with TypeScript. The rest of my project was in TypeScript and all the bugs were coming from the Angular 1 layer because there was no static checking there. TypeScript is an enormous improvement over plain JavaScript in my opinion in terms of productivity (better refactoring, better autocomplete) and making your code more robust (no unexpected null/undefined variables, no more mixing up strings and arrays). Ignoring TypeScript for large projects is a big mistake. Angular 2 felt too verbose and overly complex so I switched to Vue which has decent add ons to work with TypeScript. If you use JSX for Vue templates as well, you get type checking for your templates.