Where I work, everything on the frontend is TypeScript, everything Nodejs is TypeScript. I did create a nice little bash utility using Standard style i.e. vanilla js in Node and that's worked out well.
Although I'm senior enough to start a new project without TS within my team, I think it would be a little egotistic. Although I am not convinced by TS benefits, most people at my company are convinced it's necessary and I don't think it's worth going against the grain. There's many more important decisions when starting a new project, and I think the architecture is much more important than whether to type or not. Besides, I now choose to use Go on anything server side, and try to shy away from the frontend because I don't find it as fun to code as I used to (partly because of things like TS, partly because the kind of work doesn't feel as engaging, and feels like busywork).
I worked at a company previously that had a large NodeJS codebase that was largely created before TypeScript was so popular. That's what I mostly have to compare against, and so I do know what it is like to do massive projects with many people without TypeScript. I don't think we ever felt the need for types, and building and pushing code was always simple and safe.
Although I'm senior enough to start a new project without TS within my team, I think it would be a little egotistic. Although I am not convinced by TS benefits, most people at my company are convinced it's necessary and I don't think it's worth going against the grain. There's many more important decisions when starting a new project, and I think the architecture is much more important than whether to type or not. Besides, I now choose to use Go on anything server side, and try to shy away from the frontend because I don't find it as fun to code as I used to (partly because of things like TS, partly because the kind of work doesn't feel as engaging, and feels like busywork).
I worked at a company previously that had a large NodeJS codebase that was largely created before TypeScript was so popular. That's what I mostly have to compare against, and so I do know what it is like to do massive projects with many people without TypeScript. I don't think we ever felt the need for types, and building and pushing code was always simple and safe.