# Decisions

A small document highlighting why certain choices were made.

## Typescript

- static typing
- stricter than normal javascript
- better visual studio code support than javascript

## Babel

- polyfill es6 modules to commonjs
- hooks in better sourcemap support for node

## Browserify

- required for nexe bundling (has a bug where bundling source fails)
- fixes the `Uncaught ReferenceError: exports is not defined` error
- far easier to setup compared to webpack

## Node.http

- can be modified to our specific needs
- no additional dependencies, overhead and complexity under the hood compared to frameworks
- eft requires special care in request/response handling (no compression headers, but data is zlib compressed)

## File naming

- emulates C# namespacing, which I prefer

## Drawio

- png diagrams are heavy, drawio diagrams are not
- allows for editing the diagrams later