It is! This was a sketch in That Mitchell and Webb Look.

Yes, there’s support for compiling React Native to UWP apps for Windows. No, I don’t know why anyone thought that was a good idea.

Yesssssss. I just got done splitting up a 3000-line mess of React code into a handful of simple, reusable components. Better than sex.

After maintaining a huge JS codebase for years and finally upgrading it to TS, my life is so much easier. Refactoring is faster and less error-prone. I no longer have to manually document the parameter/return types for every function. I don’t have that gnawing “oh damn, what if I missed something” feeling whenever I make changes.

Yes it’s a bit more work up front but it pays dividends on larger codebases.

Poor Northampton. One little treasonous insurrection nearly 400 years ago and now it’ll never be a city 😔✊