don't try to make TS work within code that is rendering stuff. Major frameworks put in lots of effort to support TS in the view layer and, with some exceptions, it usually comes with caveats
I’m really not sure what problems you have in mind here. I’ve found TS to be really useful with very few caveats.
The biggest problem you’re likely to hit in TS is when things subtly lose their strong typing accidentally -- for example, you need to use some API that works with untyped JSON blobs. But the you’re no worse off than if you were just using plain JS in the first place.
TS is especially great when you’re using libraries with good type annotations -- your IDE can give you useful live typechecking and autocompletion, even if your own code is in JS!
In React code, TS is really good because you can statically check your prop types. There is a little bit of a learning curve to doing that both correctly and tersely, but I think it’s more than worth the effort.
As the OP specifically said they wanted strong typing, TS seems like an obvious choice over vanilla JS. I suppose you could consider other things like Flow or Reason, but TS is the most widely-used by far.
I’m really not sure what problems you have in mind here. I’ve found TS to be really useful with very few caveats.
The biggest problem you’re likely to hit in TS is when things subtly lose their strong typing accidentally -- for example, you need to use some API that works with untyped JSON blobs. But the you’re no worse off than if you were just using plain JS in the first place.
TS is especially great when you’re using libraries with good type annotations -- your IDE can give you useful live typechecking and autocompletion, even if your own code is in JS!
In React code, TS is really good because you can statically check your prop types. There is a little bit of a learning curve to doing that both correctly and tersely, but I think it’s more than worth the effort.
As the OP specifically said they wanted strong typing, TS seems like an obvious choice over vanilla JS. I suppose you could consider other things like Flow or Reason, but TS is the most widely-used by far.