Moving to JavaScript with JSDoc?

[timonson]

By moving to JavaScript including JSDoc we could make djwt compatible with the browser. By adding // @ts-check to the top of the files, it is my understanding that type checks would be executed in importing TypeScript files even if the developer would not have enabled the compiler option "checkJs" inside his deno.json file.

Am I overlooking any disadvantages or problems here?

Thanks!

[timonson]

This approach wouldn't work with the TypeScript dependency base64url from std.

[lucsoft]

Don't do this. Stripping types is also very simple and the Deno guys want this stripping types feature also build in into deno.land/x.

I think it's a downgrade (IMO) as JSDocs also makes code less readable