generator-babel-typescript

TypeScript package transpiled with Babel using babel-preset-typescript and works with Jest

Installation

First, install Yeoman and generator-babel-typescript using npm (we assume you have pre-installed node.js).

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-babel-typescript

Then generate your new project:

yo babel-typescript

Things I like

• Compile using Babel on a file-by-file basis
  • Clean and tidy
• Run test without build
• Single source code build pipeline

Things I don't like

• Type-checking need to run outside of Babel
  • Need to run TSC just for type-checking, using concurrently
  • TypeScript output is ugly (multiple empty lines)
• Create declaration files (*.d.ts) using TSC
  • May be it is a limitation on Babel on outputting multiple files
  • The preset don't read tsconfig.json

Things don't work

• No source map generated by @babel/preset-typescript
  • It is not taking in tsconfig.json
  • Also not receiving options from .babelrc

License

MIT © William Wong

Contributions

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