What's wrong with javascript in a big project? What problems did we face and how did we solve them

Why are certain disadvantages of the JavaScript language in the realities of developing such a large project as ours, turn out to be critical? How to solve the problems of JS, when the amount of code exceeds 2 million lines, and the team has more than 20 people and is constantly growing? About this - in the report of the frontend tmlid Wrike in the framework of the mitap held in our office together with the community Piter JS.


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Evgeny Gusev “JavaScript in a large project: problems and solutions"

1. What's wrong with Javascript in a big project?
2. JsDoc = solution?
3. JavaScript problems:
- Knowledge is spread over the code or concentrated in the head
- A great desire (and opportunity) to write a crutch
- Weak OOP support
- The problem with insulation and modularity
4. Solution: Dart
- Self-documented
- Good analysis
- isolates
- OOP
5. Dart vs TypeScript

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