How great the (front end) divide (JS Party #61)

Panelists Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Kevin Ball chat about the perceived Great Divide in front end development, why 2019 is the year of TypeScript, and shout outs to inspirational members of the community.

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Featuring:

• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• The Great Divide
• Jest moving to TypeScript
• Yarns Future - v2 and beyond
• Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript
• TypeScript support in Tink
• Monica Dinculescu on Twitter
• Magenta
• Tenori-off
• Magic Sketchpad
• Dan Abramov on Twitter
• Overreacted
• Rachel Andrew on Twitter
• Rachel Andrew’s author profile on Smashing Magazine
• Grid by Example
• Jen Simmons on Twitter
• Jen’s YouTube channel: Layout Land

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