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Integrating JavaScript with TypeScript

To integrate JavaScript in a TypeScript project, the allowJs setting must be enabled in tsconfig, while type checking can be activated with checkJs. For large migrations, it's easier to disable checkJs and use // @ts-check on individual files. Type information can be described using JSDoc or type definition files, which are often provided by third-party libraries or available from the Definitely Typed repository.

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Integrating JavaScript with TypeScript

To integrate JavaScript in a TypeScript project, the allowJs setting must be enabled in tsconfig, while type checking can be activated with checkJs. For large migrations, it's easier to disable checkJs and use // @ts-check on individual files. Type information can be described using JSDoc or type definition files, which are often provided by third-party libraries or available from the Definitely Typed repository.

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Integration with JavaScript

Summary
• To include JavaScript code in a TypeScript project, we need to enable the allowJs setting
in tsconfig.

• JavaScript code included in TypeScript projects is not type-checked by default.

• We can enable type checking by enabling the checkJs setting in tsconfig.

• We can optionally turn off compiler errors on a file-by-file basis by applying // @ts-
nocheck once on top of JavaScript files.

• When migrating a large JavaScript project to TypeScript, we might face numerous


errors. In such cases, it’s easier to disable checkJs and apply // @ts-check (the
opposite of @ts-nocheck) on individual files to migrate them one by one.

• We have two ways to describe type information for JavaScript code: using JSDoc and
declaration (type definition files).

• Type definition files are similar to header files in C. They describe the features of a
module.

• We don’t need to create type definition files for third-party JavaScript libraries. We can
use type definition files from the Definitely Typed GitHub repository (@types/
<package>).

• Newer JavaScript libraries come with type definition files. So there’s no need to install
type definition files separately.

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