Decisions 2

Niclas Meier
Head of Technology at OWNR Deutschland GmbH
After two years of building the OWNR infrastructure and apps on JavaScript we decided to embrace TypeScript as a step forward.
JavaScript with its amazing eco-system helped us to prototype and move quickly on the product side, but we had some issues with 3rd party deliverables. Nothing not solvable with a more extensive test-suite and documentation but we wanted to also get some other benefits. As TypeScripted being compiled the move liberated us from the finer incompatibilities between Browser/NodeJs and ESx version issues.

Niclas Meier
Head of Technology at OWNR Deutschland GmbH
When setting up the backend programming landscape for OWNR we chose JavaScript over a more traditional approach with Java (or Python/Golang) for the excellent usability with AWS Lambda and the possibility to use it also on the client.