Mark Pieszak

My love for JavaScript started a very long time agow when it was used for nothing more than Image hover replacements and some basic form validation. I knew there was something valuable here that the web was vastly under-utilizing, so I spent as much time as I could learning and mastering the confusing and wild world of JavaScript and it's relationship with the DOM and browsers. Thankfully JS has vastly improved and these days I code it primarily in TypeScript as the tooling and type safety just increase my productivity 10-fold. It helps that I've known C# (as I've done a lot of asp.net development over the years), which made TypeScript such a natural progression for me. Not only do I code application code in TypeScript, but server-side NodeJS as well.

I've been working and contributing to many Node projects for many years now. I fell in love with how light-weight and powerful it was. Coming from a lot of ASP.NET enterprise development, the simplicity of Node was just so invaluable to me. These days I'm coding Node in TypeScript (which alleviates a lot of problems you'll get in large Node applications written in strictly JavaScript). Since the advent of NestJS, I've ported many projects over to that which brings even more structure and power to Node applications, now it's my immediate go-to for writing any Node applications.