Is it worth learning Node.js? I feel like I should learn TypeScript as well.

Yes. And yes to TypeScript as well.

Node’s on a great trajectory. TypeScript is as well.

I freelance, and I’ve been getting back-to-back Node/TypeScript projects for the last year. Despite wanting to take some time off. Everyone always needs everything done yesterday….

The money is good. The software engineering principles are better when you’re using static types.

Be sure you turn on TypeScript strict mode and use ts-lint.

Good luck!

Yes. And yes to TypeScript as well.

Node’s on a great trajectory. TypeScript is as well.

I freelance, and I’ve been getting back-to-back Node/TypeScript projects for the last year. Despite wanting to take some time off. Everyone always needs everything done yesterday….

The money is good. The software engineering principles are better when you’re using static types.

Be sure you turn on TypeScript strict mode and use ts-lint.

Good luck!

Don't get confused with Node.js and TypeScript, they both are different.

Node.js is a JS framework which runs on the server side and uses Javascript or Typescript.

Whereas Typescript is a superset of Javascript, that means TypeScript is written on top of the Javascript by Microsoft. 

So you can either use Javascript or Typescript for writing the code, this is applicable to Node.js as well.

You can say that few of the JavaScript issues are addressed by Microsoft and they were rectified in TypeScript.

Example, In javascript variable declaration, is done like this

var a = 10;

Here, we aren't specifying the type of variable a, if 10 is assigned then Javascript considers it as a type Number and if a string is assigned then Javascript considers it as a type String.

As humans tend to make mistakes, there might be a possibility that somewhere we assign a variable 'a' the string value or any other type value,

say a = 'string' or a = true;

So in Javascript, we are not binding the variable to any type, such issues were addressed by Microsoft and using TypeScript you avoid such issues.

In typescript, 

a:number = 10;

If by mistake, we assign variable 'a' value of type string or any type, It will throw an error message.

a = 'string' or a = true, it will not be allowed using TypeScript but is allowed in Javascript.

So, Learn Javascript, then learn Typescript then go for Node.js.

And yes learning Node JS is worth give it a try.