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Discussion on: Thoughts on migrating to TypeScript and improving the overall quality of the frontend DEV codebase

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Replies for: Oh, I didn't know that I can run typescript compiler on javascript code without modifying the existing code. Thanks, I'll give it a try.

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John Papa •

Set allowJs to true in the tsconfig.json file to tell typescript to look at the js.

Good luck!

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Attila Szeremi⚡ •

Why didn't you just recommend this from the start? Seems a lot simpler than to add // @ts-check to every single JS file like you said in your original comment :P