Umm, no experience with typescript here, but can't you use the type annotations from the DefinitelyTyped project [1] to avoid everything becoming `any`? There a

Umm, no experience with typescript here, but can't you use the type annotations from the DefinitelyTyped project [1] to avoid everything becoming `any`? There are open source type annotations for all major (and many minor) libraries, including jquery [2]. [1] https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped [2] https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/jquery https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/j...