polar-bookshelf

escript repo and using a Macbook Pro from 2015... With --incremental and --watch my build takes like 5 seconds. About 1 minute on the first build then about 5 seconds after that. If your build is taking a long time - you're doing something wrong. > The internal code and runtime TypeScript declarations must be manually kept in sync since the TypeScript Compiler isn’t helpful to generate the d.ts files What? How? That doesn't make any sense. You're doing something wrong here. If all the code is in typescript, you have no additional work to do. If it's in JS you just have to write your own .d.ts files manually. Honestly it seems like this team just needs to sit down and understand how their tools actually work. The one issue where Typescript DOES kind of suck is when dealing with webpack, typemaps, and types. Many older projects just don't publish types and if you rely on them, and they refuse to publish types, you're going to be in a bit of pain. You can write your own types though and we've been doing this internally and for some repos just forking them so it's a bit easier to work with them. They usually lag on publishing their types. If you want to avoid all this pain you can just use webpack for your build system and Typescript for your code. We use lerna to build a multi-module system with --hoist to avoid duplicate dependencies. https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf ... is the project we're working on if you want to check it out. Our internal build system isn't fully published yet as we're in the process of reworking it but we're open source so you can take a look if you want.

de elegant apps with both front and backends and I get strict typing. Could NOT have made so much progress without TS.

hlight through them directly. 7. There are definitely small bugs and fit and finish issue we're working on. If you have an issue please report it: https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf/issues 8. Yes. Polar isn't fully self hosted but that defeats the point. My cure hypothesis is that knowledge benefits from being social which is the main thing I'm trying to test. By the time I'm done I think 95% of you would agree that keeping it private is insane as you don't benefit from the community. 9. If you like Polar please consider donating. https://opencollective.com/polar-bookshelf ... we've received essentially zero Open Source contributions from the community and very little funding.