Flow: A Static Type Checker for JavaScript

Lou Mauget Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React Leave a Comment

In this post, we’ll discuss the concept of types, compare static and dynamic types, and show an unobtrusive type inference package provided by Flow.org.

Facebook developed and maintains Flow. The package provides static typing to normally late-bound JavaScript code, including React code. It provides this analysis to a JavaScript application, even if it is an existing application.  Flow operates by carrying out a static abstract syntax tree (AST) analysis of type flows at build time.