TypeScript's strict mode is a collection of compiler flags that catch entire categories of bugs at build time. Most teams enable some of them and silently lose the others through copy-pasted tsconfigs. Here's what each strict flag actually catches, the order to adopt them in a legacy codebase, and the patterns that make strict TypeScript pleasant to write.
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TypeScript, CI/CD, databases, observability -- the skills that make code production-ready.
