JavaScript Congress • Nov 25, 2021

Do TypeScript without TypeScript

Simone Sanfratello

Want TypeScript's safety without the tedious transpilation step? Learn how to achieve robust type checking and fast iteration loops in plain JavaScript using JSDoc annotations.

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