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literally the only reason I started using typescript

Type stripping only erases annotations, so enums and namespaces still throw at load time. erasableSyntaxOnly in tsconfig catches them before node does.

module.stripTypeScriptTypes only erases, so enums and namespaces throw in the default mode. Turning on erasableSyntaxOnly in tsconfig catches those before Node does.

For me TS is the first stage of unit tests. It determines if the JS code is runnable at all. Of course it has to be configured as strict as possible. Type annotations are some kind of inline tests.

Works even in Node 22! Not having to inject a custom runtime (unless you have to have hot reload of .ts configs or something) is liberating.

Hah, love it!

I think it’s based on the same principles, but different syntax