New: Built-In TypeScript Support In Node.js — Finally

Exciting news today as native TypeScript support finally comes to Node.js!

Yes, you can now use types natively in Node.js.

I guess it’s time for me to throw typescript and ts-node in the garbage.

❌Before now:

Node.js only ever cared for JavaScript files.

This would never have run:

Try it and you’d get this unpleasant error:

Our best bet was to install TypeScript and compile with tsc.

And millions of developers agreed it was a pretty good option: