How many Angular folks are sticking with native ES6 and babel vs TypeScript? Angular is clearly directing folks to TypeScript. I don't want to have to use TypeScript on front-end and ES6 + Babel in Node. Trying to pick one.

We've been using TypeScript with Angular 1 projects for almost a year now and have really been enjoying it. Having it integrated directly into the framework is a great improvement for my team, at least.

When using Typescript with Angular 1 where you able to make use of TS types and type checking?

Want to give this a try :-)

Thanks

Yes. You just include a "type definition file" for Angular in your project. There is a very large existing repository of type definitions for popular JS libraries in the DefinitelyTyped project.

https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped