Popular libraries tend to get type hygiene issues ironed out rather quickly for 90% of the API surface area. For this reason, i find that lib selection from npm

Popular libraries tend to get type hygiene issues ironed out rather quickly for 90% of the API surface area. For this reason, i find that lib selection from npm is much easier these days. The heuristic is simple: 1) has types? 2) has (large) download count? 3) has docs? After that it’s generally smooth sailing. Of course this doesnt at all apply to the application codebase being applied to, but one of the parent/sibling remarks emphasized “madness” and i seek to smooth that over. Noisy? Yes. Madness? Nah.