Flow or TypeScript: Pick Either and Don't Look Back
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JS tooling has evolved massively in the last few years. A whole new range of bugs can be eliminated by simply typechecking your code.
This is a look into why typing is important in all JS projects, how it can help you find hard bugs, cut down on test bloat and increase reliability.
Includes an exploration of why we need types at all and why it's so hard to type JS, and a sample project showing how to easily incrementally type existing projects of any size with Flow.
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Samuel Reed is co-founder and CTO of BitMEX, the world's most advanced Bitcoin derivatives exchange. He is a full-stack programmer focusing on frontend development and has built applications with nearly every JS framework under the sun. Sam works freelance in his spare time and is a huge fan of Node.JS and ReactJS.
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Pre-meetup social hour will be at the Brown Bottle (http://www.brownbottlemke.com/) (map (https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Brown+Bottle/@43.0510749,-87.915914,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x8805196d2c8e0137:0x9dbed4c11422f8f0)) starting around 5pm.
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