End-to-end type safety is a feeling

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There’s a specific kind of calm that comes from a codebase where the types flow all the way through: rename a field on the server, and the client stops compiling until you fix it. No runtime surprise, no stale contract.

The good

• Refactors become mechanical. The compiler is your checklist.
• Onboarding speeds up — the types are the docs.

The honest tradeoffs

• Build complexity goes up. You’re buying safety with tooling.
• It shines for internal, fast-moving APIs; it matters less at stable public boundaries where versioning is the real concern.

Used where it fits, it’s one of the highest-leverage choices a small team can make.