The default on every build

Technology

TypeScript doesn't get a case study of its own. It's rarely the interesting part of a project, it's the part that keeps the interesting part from breaking. We don't choose it as a differentiator. We choose it because untyped JavaScript on a team of more than one person is a liability we don't need to carry.

Every client codebase we hand over is typed, whether the surface is a Next.js frontend, a Node service, or the scripts that hold a build together. It's on every project in the list below, and on dozens more that never got a page of their own.

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Why

What TypeScript actually buys us

  1. Fewer bugs reach the client's users

    A type error caught in the editor is a bug that never reaches a client's users. Across every stack we touch, from a Next.js frontend to an agent backend, that's the real payoff: fewer runtime surprises in code somebody else has to maintain after we're gone.

  2. A codebase a new engineer can read

    Most of our work eventually gets handed to a client's own team. Types are documentation that can't go stale the way a comment can. A new engineer reading a typed function signature knows what it expects and what it returns, without asking anyone who wrote it.

  3. The tradeoff is time, not correctness

    The cost is real: a build step, a config file, and friction whenever a library ships with bad or missing types. We pay it anyway. On any project with more than one engineer, or a life longer than a demo, the math works out in our favor.

TypeScript projects

Where we've built with it