
Episode 384: Boris Cherny on TypeScript
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TypeScript and JSON: Ensuring Type Safety
This chapter explores the interaction between TypeScript and JSON, emphasizing how TypeScript enhances type safety in JSON data handling. It covers API typing, the integration of TypeScript with Babel, and strategies for migrating JavaScript to TypeScript, focusing on incremental type safety. The discussion also highlights TypeScript's unique handling of null types, reinforcing compile-time checks to prevent runtime errors.
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