Does anyone know of any good examples of larger scale TypeScript application architecture?
TypeScript 0.9 released
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#72If the selling point for TypeScript is adding static types/analysis to JavaScript, do we expect that it is the trend that other popular dynamic languages e.g. python/ruby/php will likely follow?
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#73The addition of export = is great. This was a glaringly obvious deficiency that I'm glad they resolved.
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#74TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source. (C) http://www.typescriptlang.org/ Btw, I've used it a lot, feel free to ask any questions.
I wonder if there are any ugly things or traps in programming TypeScript.
When you comfortable with JavaScript, there is nothing can scare you in TypeScript.
The only thing is - to get a best you need to prepare. If you using some library, I should find (or write, or generate) proper definition file for this library (Interface). But when you get all together - you have a lot of happy hours of coding :)
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I now work at Microsoft, but was previously a long time developer in the Microsoft ecosystem (primarily C++). I would be the last guy to disagree with your experience and I am telling everyone who will listen internally what it was like to be on the outside. But the Typescript project has some things going for it: 1. It's open source. 2. It's closely aligned with EC6, the upcoming Javascript standard. 3. It's compati…
> And, yes, there's a Visual Studio plugin for it if that's your cup of tea. Only if you are lucky enough to be using 2012 already.
You can use Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web, which is no cost. Older VS's you can of course launch the command line compiler. The generated Javascipt is not mangled and is quite debuggable.
I've been using Vim and the browsers' F12.
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> And, yes, there's a Visual Studio plugin for it if that's your cup of tea. Only if you are lucky enough to be using 2012 already.
You can use Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web, which is no cost. Older VS's you can of course launch the command line compiler. The generated Javascipt is not mangled and is quite debuggable. I've been using Vim and the browsers' F12.
That might work in a startup, not in an enterprise environment where your computer image is controlled regularly by IT and all software requires approval before use.
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I think major difference here is that Microsoft actually tries to play nice with the existing ecosystem - Follow EcmaScript6 development path - Using NodeJS as the base for the language service - Providing plugins for various editors - Be superset of JavaScript - you can (almost) directly drop any JS code to TypeScript After all these years it almost looks like Microsoft has learnt its lessons and sees there is more…
Actually my major grief is that they are using Microsoft's Codeplex software repository services which feel little old fashioned and cumbersome after all Github hipstering :)
but they use git as well, so you could easily set up a mirror on github.
Re: TypeScript 0.9 released
#78Does anyone know of any good examples of larger scale TypeScript application architecture?
same as for JavaScript
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I disagree. 1. Coffeescript is far from ugly, and also not particularly similar to Ruby :p 2. Typescript includes types and brackets. Coffeescript does not. 3. Icedcoffescript includes async/defer keywords. I include this last point only as a result of a personal perspective that if you're going to use coffeescript, you might as well use icedcoffeescript.
I'm sorry, I'm not a Ruby developer and hope never would :) From my prospect - all languages, which has no brackets are ugly and simular to ruby. Btw, based on typescript discussions, they are going to implement async/await functionality too.
async/await is on their roadmap, though I'd estimate about a year before it'll be in a stable version (I wouldn't be surprised if it'll be available on a feature branch much sooner, but with lower expectation of stability).
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You can use Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web, which is no cost. Older VS's you can of course launch the command line compiler. The generated Javascipt is not mangled and is quite debuggable. I've been using Vim and the browsers' F12.
That might work in a startup, not in an enterprise environment where your computer image is controlled regularly by IT and all software requires approval before use.
It is itself a Javascript program. You can use Typescript in a browser. I once had it working on Windows RT via cscript.exe.