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Template React Native project to be used with Cookiecutter
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[Don't merge] Convert to TypeScript #23

Closed jakecraige closed 7 years ago

jakecraige commented 7 years ago

This is a first pass/spike at converting the template to TypeScript. I did this since I wanted to see how it would work compared to my recent experience with Flow.

I'm planning on also putting together a Flow one for comparison.

So far, my experience setting this up was smoother than with Flow. Some of that could be getting more used to how defining types in JS works, but the tooling definitely felt nicer with TypeScript, even without using autocomplete. The errors seemed more reliable and it didn't freak out as much as Flow has on me.

It's very possible this is due to this being a much simpler implementation than the project I'm on, so I can't make much of a definitive opinion yet on which would be preferred.

jakecraige commented 7 years ago

Note to self: it can be set up much nicer now http://blog.novanet.no/easy-typescript-with-react-native/