I definitely wouldn’t say it’s the “best” open source project but my side project https://github.com/codeamigo/codeamigo is a full stack project written in TypeScript and I’m happy to answer any questions you have about it. Full project here: https://codeamigo.dev
Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?
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#32I'm part of the team that maintains a digital wallet browser extension with a really clean codebase — check it out.
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#33Re: Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?
#34It's not popular, but I'm very proud of my ADT library I'm working on. https://github.com/schwartzworld/schtate
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#35Depends whether you actually want to learn TypeScript or just how to consume it. More than 90% of TypeScript code I've seen is not actually taking advantage of TypeScript's static analysis capabilities to write safer more scalable code and is instead just being used as glorified autocomplete.
If you actually want to learn, then take a look at the implementation for stuff like Zod: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/tree/master/src/helpers
You can do some really powerful stuff that hugely benefits your team. A decent example I stumbled across recently when I went to release my own library (that does the same thing) is https://github.com/leancodepl/ts-routes
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#36How about a different approach. Instead doing more of the same, branch out in to a different language. Elm, for example. [0]
Elm specifically will teach you lots on the static types end of things. And it will only take a weekend or so of tinkering to show improvements in your TS life.
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#37This is such a valuable question for other languages too. I wonder if there's a repo/resource listing such projects..
I asked a similar question about ruby some time ago, and came across one good recommendation (https://github.com/sharetribe/sharetribe), but would love to have many more. I'm also self-taught and feel I haven't read enough great ruby code!
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#38* https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw * https://github.com/calcom/cal.com * https://github.com/supabase/supabase * https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite * https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n * https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith * https://github.com/directus/directus * https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
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#39Lolssss you’ve all been duped… this list will be used to train an ai model, which will then take over your job!!
Re: Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?
#40Depends whether you actually want to learn TypeScript or just how to consume it. More than 90% of TypeScript code I've seen is not actually taking advantage of TypeScript's static analysis capabilities to write safer more scalable code and is instead just being used as glorified autocomplete. If you actually want to learn, then take a look at the implementation for stuff like Zod: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/tr…
So true, a lot of people I've worked with treat adding types as a box to check (eg afterthought) rather than something to leverage.