It's only a decade late, I'll learn TypeScript!

I've been a bit worried lately. Of course, my friends will tell you that's my norm. But more specifically, I've been worried about my coding skills. As I use AI to generate more and more code, and it does that job well, I kinda miss actually writing code. I've also had a bit of writer's block in terms of topics to cover, and especially in the area of the web platform. A few days ago it occurred to me - I've never really dug into TypeScript. Sure, I've used it, many times, in the fourteen or so years it's been out, but many times I kinda guess at what I'm doing and it was never my default for projects. Partly that's due to my philosophy of avoiding a build step in my projects and just KISS in general. But as I said - the inspiration hit me this past week and I thought I'd do some digging. Here's a few initial thoughts and experiments. Oh, and I still used AI a bit and I'll explain exactly how in the post below. TypeScript via Vite Working with TypeScript can be as simple as npm i -g…