One big advantage of typescript with respect to the configuration options is that you can look at the output js and see what the options are producing (with a l

One big advantage of typescript with respect to the configuration options is that you can look at the output js and see what the options are producing (with a low barrier to entry - the output is easily readable js aside from some of the older targets + async keyword) The type system is super flexible and I agree it takes time to learn, but you can get a lot of value out of the basics from day one. I've not actually tried this but I suspect even with the most lenient configuration and no type annotations you'd still get limited value over plain js through type inference and flagging of obvious bugs