Looking back at year in tech

Retrospective Last year was an interesting year for me. I was able to try out a whole lot of new technologies, assess their capabilities and get a good look at their pros and cons. I want to go over a couple of them, and shortly summarize my findings. Typescript In short, Typescript made Javascript fun for me again. Although a lot of this can be attributed to the support of ES6/ES7 in Typescript. »

Using Elm within VueJS

Using Elm within VueJS Lately I have been using VueJS a lot. It’s an easy framework to learn and gets results quickly. There is an optional Typescript package to get some much needed typesafety. Overall, I’m pretty happy with it. However, the templates in Vue are where the typesafety breaks down. Typescript just has no way of knowing what’s happening in there, whereas it does have support for JSX/TXS and will supply you with type information in e. »