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mikewhy on Jan 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Future of TypeScript on ESLint

One of my favorite things about typescript was being able to ditch Babel and eslint and their myriad of requirements to get things that are considered standard. I get why they do it, it's just something I prefer.

Take create-react-app and the now deprecated create-react-app-typescript. The node_modules folder of the CRA app is over a hundred megs bigger than that of CRA-ts, and it doesn't even have feature parity.

bhl on Jan 19, 2019 [–]

Is this still dependent on browser adoption? I recently had to transpile a Typescript library via Babel to JavaScript since Chrome didn’t like the original import statements.

crooked-v on Jan 19, 2019 | [–]

Typescript is not intended to work in browsers without a compile step being involved.

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