IMHO, TypeScript is only useful if you are using a build tool because it requires so much configuration. I switched to WebPack for very large Electron projects

IMHO, TypeScript is only useful if you are using a build tool because it requires so much configuration. I switched to WebPack for very large Electron projects and I'm hooked on it. The syntactic sugar protects me from myself, and the importing is cleaner. I also finally made the switch to VSCode, which while bloated and awkward to configure, is pretty dang amazing when working correctly w.r.t. linting and code inspection. Lot's of projects are popping up using ElectronJS, which is Node+Chromium. I have written many, and they are literally write-once-run-everywhere. Node serialport and node libusb have some speed issues on macOS, but require literally no alteration, utterly seamless. The idea as "Node is just web" is dead in the water. Hugely popular ElectronJS(Node) apps are: * Saleae - An inexpensive logic analyzer - https://www.saleae.com/ https://www.saleae.com/ * Balena - a flash programmer for SDmicro and USB drives - https://www.balena.io/etcher/ https://www.balena.io/etcher/ * BetaFlight Configurator - the seminal drone (quad/hex/octo) configuration tool - https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator [FYI: Python is far, far behind in packaging cross-platform apps and requires gigabytes of support libraries. People complain about Electron size, but they are only comparing it to native apps.]