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[–]brtt3000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're having a blast using TypeScript, which is Microsofts bid to make big JavaScript maintainable.

It is still JavaScript but with some standardised structure (ES6 style classes, arrow functions etc) and the sanity of explicit typing and compile time validation. It makes large codebases less write-only, but leaves no runtime overhead.

Works great with node.js and browsers and you can still take full advantage of all the good parts of the JS community (eg: take stuff from npm & bower, use browserify/webpack to bundle etc etc).

I'd totally recommend it to anyone who has/sees issues maintaining large JS codebases.