# Migrate Repository to TypeScript
@naman9271 is already working on this.
Since Mar 9, 2025.
Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
Research direction
The issue does not name files, tests, or entry points. Start by inventorying the JavaScript codebase and existing build configuration, then define a staged migration plan using allowJs; done would require the repository to be migrated to TypeScript with the stated type-safety and tooling goals met.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Description
This issue proposes migrating the entire codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript to improve type safety, developer experience, and long-term maintainability.
Why TypeScript?
- Type Safety: Catch errors during development instead of runtime.
- Better Tooling: Enhanced IDE autocompletion, refactoring, and inline documentation.
- Scalability: Clear interfaces and type definitions simplify collaboration.
- Gradual Adoption: Existing
.jsfiles can coexist during migration usingallowJs.
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 63
- Forks
- 96
- Avg merge
- 3d 22h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
Getting set up
This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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