In this article, I’ll be going over the differences between type and interface declarations in TypeScript. This is a question I often get asked at work and I thought it would be a good idea to make it into an article to share. Types When referring to a Type created with…

How to use it and when — This article will go over the basics of the extends keyword in TypeScript. It will also provide examples from my own work where extends have come in handy. As my knowledge of TypeScript has improved over the years, a few features have proved to be more impactful than others. …

A brief guide to this helpful feature — I wanted to share a helpful technique I use in TypeScript projects to consolidate imports and make my code base much easier to read. It involves re-exporting modules in directories with index.ts files. Exporting through an index.ts file allows other modules to import everything from on directly in a single…

This is the second installment in a series of guides showing how to create a Node.js + TypeScript API. The initial pieces will be very simple, but as we progress, I will be showing how to add features that would be expected in a production-quality API. …

Laying out the nuances of this helpful naming strategy — In this article, I’ll show how to configure path aliasing in a TypeScript project. The example project will be overly simplistic, but the configuration will work for real-world applications. TypeScript makes adding path aliases easy, but it does not come preconfigured. There are a few nuances to it, which is…

This is the first installment in a series of guides showing how to create a Node.js + TypeScript API. The initial pieces will be very simple, but as we progress, I will be showing how to add features that would be expected in a production-quality API. …

A brief guide to their usage — I want to go over a feature in TypeScript I use all the time; it’s called the string literal types. They are a great alternative to enums if you need to add a simple type to an interface. …

Stay objective. Keep experimenting. — We’ve all seen articles that take things a little too far. I wanted to focus on the extremes in tech articles and share my experience in questioning the rationales behind them. Specifically, ones advocating for the wholesale destruction of popular frameworks, libraries, design principles, or languages. My goal in this…

How to shift your mindset when you broke your code — I recently released a major update to a web application I work on. The update included numerous new features as well as upgrades to most of the libraries used in the application. Naturally, an update of this size came with a few bugs reported by customers after it was released…