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Post: Getting started with TypeScript #24
Description
(A summary from a presentation given at MelbNodeJS on the 28th of August 2013)
Takeaways from the TypeScript demo
You can get TypeScript from here : http://www.typescriptlang.org/#Download
On all systems that have nodejs you can simply do:
npm install -g tsc
Its open-source and uses the apache license.
TypeScript definitions for existing libraries
You can use your existing javascript libraries from typescript with a line as simple as:
declare var $:any;
But for high quality static checking + intellisense checkout : https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
For IDE support:
Webstorm comes with integrated support http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/.
You can get a free version of WebStorm (which supports the 0.9.x version of TypeScript) here: http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/WI/WebStorm+7+EAP
GruntJS is fully supported : https://npmjs.org/package/grunt-ts
Play with it in your Browser:
Checkout : http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground/
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rvagg commentedon Aug 29, 2013
just changed your headings to 4th level, our css obviously needs a bit of work!
live @ http://nodejs.org.au/#posts
balupton commentedon Aug 29, 2013
Any ideas how you compile typescript programmatically? Something like
require('typescript').compile('some typescript code', {anOption: true});I'd love to add a plugin for it to docpad
sidorares commentedon Aug 29, 2013
@balupton https://github.com/bodil/typeify
balupton commentedon Aug 29, 2013
@sidorares sweet thanks, I'll take a look at that, I've also posted here https://typescript.codeplex.com/workitem/117 about it
sidorares commentedon Aug 29, 2013
I looked at the source - they actually have a copy of TS compiler in the package (2.5 mb of javascript). I'm sure there is a simpler way.