Vue components using typescript 2.0 with compatibility layer between version 1 and 2 of vue and vue-router

Live Examples (found in docs/vue1 and docs/vue2)

Unlike other integrations, this does not rely on annotations/decorators (runtime introspection overhead) but instead encourages keeping it simple and light like writing components in es6/es2015 (WYSIWYG).

For simple components, one can simply take advantage of this typescript 2.0 feature where you can specify the type of this for functions.

interface MyModel {
     msg: string
}

export default {
    name: 'Foo', // specify the component name
    data(): MyModel {
        return {
            msg: 'hello'
        }
    },
    // we get all the type-safety of using a class with this paradigm
    methods: {
        append(this: MyModel, suffix: string) {
            this.msg += suffix
        }
    },
    template: `<div @click="append('!')">{{ msg }}</div>`
}

Here's a sample component with inheritance (live demo):

import { component } from 'vuets'

abstract class HasMsg {
    msg: string = 'Hello, world!'
    append(suffix: string) {
        this.msg += suffix
    }
}

export class Hello extends HasMsg {
    activate = 0
    deactivate = 0
    constructor() {
        super()
    }
    static activate(self: Hello) {
        self.activate++
    }
    static deactivate(self: Hello): boolean {
        self.deactivate++
        return true
    }
    append(suffix: string) {
        super.append('?' + suffix)
    }
}
export default component({
    template: `
<div>
  <h3 @click="append('!')">{{ msg }}</h3>
  <div>
    activate count: {{ activate }}
  </div>
  <div>
    deactivate count: {{ deactivate }}
  </div>
</div>
`
}, Hello, Hello.activate, Hello.deactivate) // v1/v2 router hooks compatibility mode

main.ts (vue 1.0.x)

declare function require(path: string): any;
import * as Vue from 'vue'
import * as Router from 'vue-router'
import Home from './home/'
import Hello from './Hello'

Vue.use(Router)
var router = new Router({ linkActiveClass: 'active' })
router.map({
    '/home': { component: Home },
    '/hello': { component: Hello }
})
router.redirect({
    '*': '/home'
})
router.beforeEach(function () {
    window.scrollTo(0, 0)
})
router.start(require('./App.vue'), '#app')

main.ts (vue 2.0.x)

declare function require(path: string): any;
import * as Vue from 'vue'
import * as Router from 'vue-router'
import Home from './home/'
import Hello from './Hello'

Vue.use(Router)
const config = {
    linkActiveClass: 'active',
    scrollBehavior: () => ({ x: 0, y: 0 }),
    routes: [
        { path: '/home', component: Home },
        { path: '/hello', component: Hello },
        { path: '*', redirect: '/home' }
    ]
}

let app = require('./App.vue')
app.router = new Router(config)
new Vue(app).$mount('#app')