I’ll wrap up this discussion by pointing you to a library that offers a little extra help in handling some cases that are really unwieldy to handle with vanilla JavaScript. For example ...

It is easy to learn, cross-browser compatible, more concise than older vanilla JavaScript ... platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP ...

What's more, they're more likely to use statically typed TypeScript 100 percent of the time rather than dynamically typed vanilla JavaScript ... having last March penned "A Proposal For Type Syntax in ...