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		ncphillips on April 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes That is a cool project but you’d still have to keep it in sync with your frontend code. The beauty of Gary’s setup is changes to his database update the types for the server side Code AND client side code. The value of that comes from using the same language in both platforms

rblatz on April 9, 2020 [–]

You aren't bound to use the same language on both platforms to get this functionality. I had this running 3-4 years ago using C#, EntityFramework, and a d.ts generator that I forgot the name of.

A change to the DB schema just required me to refresh our edmx from the DB schema and then build.

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