TypeScript and Your Codebase: They Deserve Each Other!

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Argues TypeScript accelerates onboarding and prevents real bugs with data: npm downloads rise from ~19M to ~63M in 2022–2024, TypeScript ranks among top languages, 38% of bugs at Airbnb and ~15% of GitHub bugs are preventable by static typing. Demonstrates a real calorie-tracker app backed by Aight, showing pagination, date logic, and live DB writes. Shows practical patterns: generics, conditional types, discriminated unions, type assertions, and a reusable getProperty generic that enforces compile‑time correctness.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 8:59TypeScript adoption
3. 13:19Why learn TypeScript
4. 21:13Live demo: calorie tracker
5. 32:45Advanced TypeScript concepts
6. 37:20Q&A

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