React Native - TS or JS

[jaredkove]

What you would like to change/add

I'd like us to pick and standardise the language of choice for React Native apps.

👀 for JS
🚀 for TS

Vote closes COB Monday 23rd

Why you would like to change/add this

I'd like to standardise our app development across the board as we're seeing a lot of fluctuation resulting in difficulties when swapping developers out on mobile projects.

One of these decisions to make is whether we go with TS or JS on React Native apps.

In my personal opinion it would be TS due to the lower chance of frustrating bugs surfacing due to its more strongly typed nature, and the inability to see an advantage in js. Something to note is obviously JS is what we currently use with React, so would keep that language the same - but this again could change.

We've used TS in a simple commercial project now to prove it which has gone well. The rest of our apps have been in JS.

Checklist

• I have checked that this is not a duplicate issue.

Sources

• Expo TypeScript Guide

[robmilward]

I don't really say any negatives to making the switch, only positives.. so here's my 🚀!

[dextermb]

There's definitely no negatives to swapping over. But there will be a learning curve depending on how strict we want to make stuff. 🚀