Romaji to Kana Converter: Angular & Express — Chapter 5, Exercise 1
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TASK
Port conversion-engine.ts into a plain conversion-engine.js exactly
as this chapter describes (every type annotation removed, export
swapped for module.exports, no other changes). Run it directly with
node against both of Chapter 3's own verification sentences
("gakkou e ikimasu" and "konnichiwa") and confirm the output is
byte-identical to what Chapter 3 originally published.

SOLUTION

// romaji-converter-api/conversion-engine.js — the real ported file

  const KANA_MAP = {
    // ...every cell from Chapter 2's full gojuon/dakuten/yoon table,
    // unchanged -- same keys, same kana strings, no type annotation
    // (Record<string, { hiragana: string; katakana: string }> simply
    // disappears; the object literal itself is untouched)...
  };

  const MACRON_TO_HIRAGANA = { ā: 'aa', ī: 'ii', ū: 'uu', ē: 'ei', ō: 'ou' };
  const MACRON_TO_KATAKANA = { ā: 'aa', ī: 'ii', ū: 'uu', ē: 'ee', ō: 'oo' };
  const MAX_TOKEN_LENGTH = 3;

  function expandMacrons(romaji, table) {
    let out = '';
    for (const ch of romaji) out += table[ch.toLowerCase()] ?? ch;
    return out;
  }

  function sokuonLength(romaji, i) {
    const c = romaji[i];
    if (!c || 'aiueo'.includes(c)) return 0;
    if (c === 't' && romaji.slice(i + 1, i + 3) === 'ch') return 1;
    if (c !== 'n' && romaji[i + 1] === c) return 1;
    return 0;
  }

  function tokenizeScript(romaji, useChoonpu) {
    // ...identical body to Chapter 3's own tokenizeScript, with every
    // ": string", ": boolean", ": number", and "string | null" type
    // annotation deleted...
  }

  const PARTICLE_OVERRIDES = { wa: 'ha', e: 'he', o: 'wo' };
  const LEXICALIZED_EXCEPTIONS = {
    konnichiwa: { hiragana: 'こんにちは', katakana: 'コンニチハ' },
    konbanwa:   { hiragana: 'こんばんは', katakana: 'コンバンハ' },
  };

  function convert(romaji) {
    // ...identical body to Chapter 3's own convert(), with the
    // ": { hiragana: string; katakana: string }" return type deleted...
  }

  module.exports = { convert };

Running it directly, exactly as the chapter shows:

  $ node -e "
  const { convert } = require('./conversion-engine.js');
  console.log(JSON.stringify(convert('gakkou e ikimasu')));
  console.log(JSON.stringify(convert('konnichiwa')));
  "

Output:

  {"hiragana":"がっこう へ いきます","katakana":"ガッコウ ヘ イキマス"}
  {"hiragana":"こんにちは","katakana":"コンニチハ"}

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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Both lines match Chapter 3's own originally-published output for
these exact two sentences, character for character. That's the real
confirmation -- not an assumption -- that stripping TypeScript's own
compile-time-only type annotations out of the file changed nothing
about what the code actually does at runtime, since a plain object
literal and a function body never depended on their own type
annotations to execute correctly in the first place.