and why are you using TS to begin with ? and yes I agree if you're gonna jump on the typescript wagon, why not use C# etc. types are good ? yeah ... but to a l

and why are you using TS to begin with ? and yes I agree if you're gonna jump on the typescript wagon, why not use C# etc. types are good ? yeah ... but to a limit. Tests make for better programs than types. Using values too instead of mutations etc. Rich Hickey - makes a good point in his the Value of Values talk. and another point -- someone is gonna mention about node.js libraries being abandoned etc -- I don't know which exactly -- but if you stay in the express ecosystem and create your own middleware instead of just importing everything willy nilly you will go far. and the major libraries for databases, redis and api stuff have been stable for a long time. Express is still version 4 and has been for a long time. Countless frameworks in the other language ecosystems have changed a lot since then .net, rails, django etc. new features -- deprecations etc. and you know what has stayed with the same simple API ? Express