Hey there friends. So today I wanted to talk about TypeScript again, and I

want to talk about adopting TypeScript. So when I first started intoTypeScript I was working. I I'd been doing flow for a long time and then Iswitched over to TypeScript. This is at PayPal. And one of the firstprojects that I used TypeScript in was this project called PP React, whichis short for PayPal React.

It was a component library. And I I was working with a lot of abstractions

as my first and my first foray.Into TypeScript and when you work withabstractions sometimes you the typings for those things can be a little bitmore complicated than when you're just like doing everyday consuming ofabstractions or calling functions or making reactant components orwhatever.

And so it was a little bit more challenging but then I made it even more

challenging because I tried to make an abstraction for some of the thecomponents that I was using that was a higher order component and if youhave experience with types and higher order components, you know that it'sjust really hard.

It's a disaster. So anyway, I was,Doing this and I developed this opinion

where I'd say, you know, what I think that it's better. And I actuallyended up giving up on the HOC. It didn't really add a whole lot of valueanyway. But I developed this opinion where I think that it's better whenyou're just barely adopting a typed language or you know, something likethat.

Yeah, basically when you're adopting TypeScript, it's you're you're better

off focusing on getting like not focusing on getting everything perfect.So, you don't want to enable strict.Type checking right from the get-goYou're really bad at TypeScript when you're just barely getting started.And so it's way better if you just embrace that fact and say I'm going touse any or I'm going to use unknown as my argument type here.

And I'm joined I'm going to cast all the types all over the place and

whatever. And maybe you're not getting all the value out of the type systemthat you can you you aren't when you do that. But you're not going to bespending so much time trying to make the types perfect with your imperfectknowledge of TypeScript that