Should I use typescript or I can just use ES6

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My daily job is client developer using AngularJS  We are evaluating if we want to go with TypeScript  I did some research on typescript and almost every JavaScript package I need must have definition type files  I found that is not very convenient  especially if I would like to try something new and they don t have the definition for it  Its really frustrating   Even the current jQuery definition gives me some problems if I want to use typescript 1 5 beta   I started looking at ES6 and it looks similar to TypeScript  Should I just use ES6 instead  Also  I heard angular 2 will have full support for TypeScript  will that be one reason I should stay with it

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Decision tree between ES5  ES6 and TypeScript     Do you mind having a build step     Yes - Use ES5 No - keep going      Do you want to use types     Yes - Use TypeScript No - Use ES6   More Details  ES5 is the JavaScript you know and use in the browser today it is what it is and does not require a build step to transform it into something that will run in today s browsers  ES6  also called ES2015  is the next iteration of JavaScript  but it does not run in today s browsers  There are quite a few transpilers that will export ES5 for running in browsers  It is still a dynamic  read  untyped  language   TypeScript provides an optional typing system while pulling in features from future versions of JavaScript  ES6 and ES7    Note  a lot of the transpilers out there  i e  babel  TypeScript  will allow you to use features from future versions of JavaScript today and exporting code that will still run in today s browsers

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I ve been using Typescript in my current angular project for about a year and a half and while there are a few issues with definitions every now and then the DefinitelyTyped project does an amazing job at keeping up with the latest versions of most popular libraries   Having said that there is a definite learning curve when transitioning from vanilla JavaScript to TS and you should take into account the ability of you and your team to make that transition  Also if you are going to be using angular 1 x most of the examples you will find online will require you to translate them from JS to TS and overall there are not a lot of resources on using TS and angular 1 x together right now   If you plan on using angular 2 there are a lot of examples using TS and I think the team will continue to provide most of the documentation in TS  but you certainly don t have to use TS to use angular 2    ES6 does have some nice features and I personally plan on getting more familiar with it but I would not consider it a production-ready language at this point  Mainly due to a lack of support by current browsers  Of course  you can write your code in ES6 and use a transpiler to get it to ES5  which seems to be the popular thing to do right now   Overall I think the answer would come down to what you and your team are comfortable learning  I personally think both TS and ES6 will have good support and long futures  I prefer TS though because you tend to get language features quicker and right now the tooling support  in my opinion  is a little better

[angularjs] Should I use typescript? or I can just use ES6?

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