Flow - Am I Your Type? - Mark Volkmann

Flow is an open source tool from Facebook that is "a static type checker, designed to find type errors in JavaScript programs". It supports adding types gradually to variables, parameters, return values, object properties, and array elements. Flow even catches some errors without adding types by using type inference and flow analysis.

Flow supports many types including primitives, functions (with specified signatures), arrays, objects, built-in classes, custom classes, and generic (parameterized) classes.

Flow is similar to Microsoft TypeScript and mostly uses the same syntax for specifying types. However, TypeScript is also a transpiler. One benefit of using Flow is that Babel can be used for transpiling. Babel typically implements new ECMAScript features before TypeScript.

This talk covers everything you need to know to get started using Flow, including integration with Babel and ESLint.

Outline:

Static vs. Dynamic Typing
Why use types?
Why avoid types?
Flow Overview
TypeScript overview
Installing Flow
Running Flow
Executing Code with Types
Flow Analysis
Uninitialized References
Too Few Arguments
Flow Types
Basic Types
Functions, Arrays, Objects, Classes
Type Aliases
Generics
Interfaces
Disjoint Unions
Babel Setup
ESLint Setup
Editor/IDE Setup
Project Setup
flow-typed
Flow Server
Declarations
React and JSX support
Future Goals

NDC Conferences

[rajaraodv]

Very good and detailed explanation of Flow and also difference b/w flow and Typescript.