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gcanti / tcomb-form

Forms library for react
https://gcanti.github.io/tcomb-form
MIT License
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Add `getTcombFormOptions` to GUIDE.md. #377

Closed eteeselink closed 7 years ago

eteeselink commented 7 years ago

As discussed in #362. What do you think?

BTW thanks a lot for all your fantastic open source work! I'm really fond of tcomb and the related libraries.

gcanti commented 7 years ago

Awesome, thanks a lot.

I'm really fond of tcomb and the related libraries

By the way, if TypeScript is your cup of tea, keep an eye on this project https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts. Basically is tcomb revamped, merged with tcomb-validation and compatible with the TypeScript type system (the TypeOf operator, which allows for extracting static types from runtime types, is pretty interesting IMO).

eteeselink commented 7 years ago

Typescript is indeed my cup of tea, and I saw your tweet about io-ts. Now that we're going off-topic anyway, I was wondering: what's your motivation for moving from flow to ts? Our typescript code is simply typescript because we had Windows devs and Flow didn't work on Windows at the time - so no real fundamental reason. But you've invested a lot of time in Flow and now went to TypeScript, why's that? :-)

By the way, I like the idea of io-ts. Do you consider it the spiritual successor to tcomb? I'm only sad that I can't use typescript class or interface syntax with it, but I understand that that's simply a limitation to TS - without an additional generator.

I'm confused about your use case for io-ts, though. What's the point of runtime type checking inside a 100% typescript project? Relatively little, I assume, so I guess it's for safety at the border of a mixed JS-TS project, or for library APIs and the likes. Right? If I guessed right, maybe adding the use case near the top of the README might help people understand it - I only understood it now, the second time I looked at it.

gcanti commented 7 years ago

@eteeselink opened an issue here https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts/issues/18 for discussing