TypeScript Survival Guide (Part 1): Stop Making These Mistakes

If you're coming from JavaScript, TypeScript can feel overwhelming at first. Suddenly, you have types, errors, and things that didn’t exist before. This is a simple survival guide to help you avoid the most common mistakes. 1. Avoid using any When I first started using TypeScript, I used any everywhere. let value : any = " hello " It works — but it defeats the whole purpose of TypeScript. You're basically going back to plain JavaScript. 👉 Use any only when you really have no other option. 2. Pr