Consider porting to JavaScript

[lukebennett88]

Learning TypeScript is a large barrier to entry for a lot of developers (myself included).

This project seems like a great example of best practices for a Next.js/e-commerce site (I was planning to use it as the basis for a headless Shopify store as someone coming from Gatsby) I think it would be useful to a lot more people if it was in JavaScript rather than TypeScript.

[dougwithseismic]

+1 it's a great project skeleton but there's actually very little that actually needs TS here.

[okbel]

Interesting. Let's elaborate here.

There's two sides of the coin here. We can remove TypeScript but we'll have to add a lot of helpers/handlers because of the risk of a dynamic and not statically typed language (JavaScript).

When building products at scale, you can't always 👮‍♀️ everyone to use Components well and to -not-add- technical debt. TS types are incredibly helpful in that realm. You can specify function needs, declare structure, etc.

Also, enforcing the usage of types allow us and you to build better products. I highly encourage you to give it a try.

[okbel]

Closing this for now, but open to reconsider keeping a branch updated just in JS.