TypeScript vs. JavaScript: Which One Should You Use in 2025?
By Amanda Ene Adoyi · Updated Fri Aug 22 2025The age-old debate – What’s better for development: JavaScript or TypeScript? Okay, maybe it isn’t an age-old conundrum, but it does make several developers scratch their heads before beginning a web development undertaking.
Before we dive into these languages (or offshoots of the same language) and discuss their differences as well as which one we believe you should use in your next project, let’s have a look at exploring what they are if you are new to them.
JavaScript is an interpreted programming language that allows us to build amazing features on web pages – at least that’s how it would have been defined a couple of years ago – but JavaScript no longer refers to the programming language that simply aids HTML and CSS in building fabulous websites by controlling the behavior of features.
Now JavaScript can be used to build standalone applications full of amazing features and do wonderful things thanks to the advent of Node.js. Some of these applications are games and utility programs. You may not realize it, but games like Angry Birds, Bejeweled were built using JavaScript.