typescript

Last summer a team of engineers converted our front-end code from Closure-annotated JavaScript to TypeScript, you can read about it here. It has been a long journey to take that converted code that was smattered with anys and turn it into idiomatic and type-safe TypeScript. The strict compiler flags have…

Background Users have been using Lucidchart for a long time to make their diagrams, since 2010 and IE6. And for nearly that long, Lucid has used Google’s Closure Compiler to manage its increasingly sophisticated code base. Closure Compiler is a typechecker and minifier that uses JSDoc annotations in comments to…