Typescript Community

Outside of the Python community, there are many other communities that are worth to explore, such as the Typescript community.

python, full-stack, typescript

Published

12 September 2023

Over the last month, I have been exploring the Typescript community. The initial motivation is that I want to bring AI applications to the all kinds of users. There are some frameworks in Python that can help me to do that, such as Streamlit. However, I found that the Typescript community is more active and has more mature frameworks.

Since those developers from Typescript community always focus on the user experience, they really did great jobs on some tools

I will not go into the details of the Typescript community, but I will list some tools that I found useful.

Sveltekit: a framework for building web applications
Vite: a build tool for web applications
Tailwindcss: a utility-first CSS framework
Flowbite: a UI toolkit for building web applications
Vercel: a cloud platform for static sites and serverless functions
Supabase: an open source Firebase alternative
Prisma: a database toolkit
Lucia: a tiny library for authentification
Superforms: a form builder for sveletekit
Fly.io: a platform for running applications globally
Railway: a platform for running applications instantly

I did not mention the most popular tools in the Typescript community, such as React, Next.js, Vue, and so on. I just want to list some tools that I think are useful for me who is a Python developer.

I have tried the React and Next.js, but I found that Sveltekit is more suitable for me. I also did some applications with Vue, but I fell in love with Sveltekit, which blends the boundary between the frontend and backend.

It might take a while to get used to Sveltekit, but I think it is worth to try. Once you get used to it, you will find the following three things are really cool:

+page.svelte: html, css, and js are in the same file (focusing on the design and presentation)
+page.ts: typescript (focusing on the logic)
+page.server.ts: typescript (focusing on the backend)

With the above three files, you can build very cool stuff. Together with Prisma, you can build a full-stack application in a very short time. Like the slogan of supbase, you can: Build in a weekend, scale to millions.

I am very happy to join the Typescript community. I will keep exploring the Typescript community and share my experience with you. Last year, I registered a domain called pymeetsjs.com. I think I should register another domain called pymeetsts.com.