Where is the documentation for javascript for the pnp libraries?

Question

I am trying to build a SharePoint Add-In and I am struggling because all documentation seems to be in TypeScript. I am sure TS is great but I don't have time to learn it right now. Does MSFT not have docs in javascript?

https://pnp.github.io/pnpjs/sp/docs/items/

Answer 1

All of the PnP JavaScript libraries are written in TypeScript. As such, there are no exemplar JavaScript files.

All of the tooling to implement customizations in SharePoint has changed. e.g.: SP Designer —> Gulp, Yeoman, Node, etc. This is a major hurdle that I and other DevOps have had to overcome (in my case, I still am).

Answer 2

You will be surprised, but below is a valid javascript:

// get all the items from a list
sp.web.lists.getByTitle("My List").items.get().then(items => {
    console.log(items);
});

It works in all modern browsers. You see, it doesn't differ significantly from the samples for PnPjs. In most cases, it requires an additional tool, which transforms this code into a module (tools like Babel or Typescript compiler). Today you simply can't create a big scalable solution in Javascript without modularity.
I recommend you to spend some time and dig into modern JavaScript (or Typescript it even better)