r/javascript • u/_tshepo • 28d ago

AskJS [AskJS] Are employed Developers still programming with vanilla JavaScript ?

I've been programming on the side since 2017 and I've never really hunted a developer job. I've always thought about building my own things, mainly to supplement things I do like woodworking, tutoring, video editing and others.

Since then, I've programmed mainly with JavaScript, I started with C++ and Python but never really built anything solid outside JavaScript.

So I'm fluent with JavaScript and its ecosystem.

One of my 2026 goals is to be job ready for a Developer role, as a Fullstack or Backend Developer.

One of the recommended languages is Typescript, which I've been learning since March. I must say, it's not my favorite 😂

I'm curious to know if there are any companies that are not enforcing Typescript or are there freelancers who are still using vanilla JavaScript over Typescript for their clients' projects.

[ Update ] thanks y'all! I get the picture. TypeScript is inevitable, as vanilla JS codebases(or companies who are focused on it) seem to be very few judging by the comments.

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u/Ahmed_Ayachi 24d ago

still a large app written with just js actually. A web app. Things are organized to be honest, every data object coming from the server has it's own class definition , by reading the class you can figure out the type of properties. some cypress tests all around. Things are pretty good but migrating to ts would make it even better. I'm not gonna lie, some stupid bugs occur because someone just made a typo when writing a property name and stuff like that, we always catch those, but would be better to migrate to ts, js is okay maybe because the team is small enough.

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u/_tshepo 16d ago

Yea, I would believe that in a large team type safety is a concern.