SAsandGorgon·Sep 27, 2018
The official create-react-app starter from Microsoft.
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter
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TypeScript-React-Starter
A starter template for TypeScript and React with a detailed README describing how to use the two together.
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12 sourcesCreate React App is the first link that TS gives you in "getting started". Is there something wrong with it?
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter#typesc...
In TypeScript at Google> And TypeScript uses the ECMAScript module system.
Erm, I was thinking of a discussion like the one over here:
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter/issues...
Q: `import React from "react";` breaks in Typescript
A: have you tried `import * as React from 'react';`
Me: Golly!
> Decorators are a JavaScript (TC39 stage 2) proposal, and TypeScript only uses them if you use --experimentalDecorators.
Oh, didn’t know about the flag; I thought it's already a standard language feature now, what with all the Angular apps relying on it. As for decorators being a TC39 proposal, I am aware of that, but they have remained a proposal for quite a long time now, haven’t they (about 4 years now?), and I remember babel renaming the transformer for decorators to legacy-decorators-something, saying that the very semantics of decorators in JS
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is still debatable (some thought of them simply in terms of functions accepting a function and returning another function; some in more angular sense of injecting some properties into methods). I hope I am not completely misrepresenting the rationale here.
> What would you recommend to someone averse to js
I guess it depends on what your concerns are:
• If you're worried about too many libraries to pick from, I'd just go with the most popular ones. React is a pretty solid choice.
• If you're worried about config being a pain, I'd recommend going with one of the starter tools like Create React App. Build tools are indeed a bit complex, but hopefully that's getting better over time.
• If you're scared by lack of type safety or worried about language quirks, I'd recommend TypeScript. (Flow is also quite good.)
In particular, TypeScript (and Flow) provides much more flexible static typing than I've used in any other mainstream language. You get the nice navigation, autocomplete, and static checking that you'd expect from a typed language, and I've found that I spend much less time needing to th
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ink about how to write my code in a way that appeases the type system.
Here's a tutorial that hits all of the points above: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter
> not intended to be used with TypeScript
Microsoft maintains the Typescript plugin. Works great.
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter
In React-Starter-Kit – Open Source Universal React Redux GraphQL BoilerplateTypeScript-React-Starter from Microsoft
2 points · Open discussionMicrosoft TypeScript React Starter
1 points · Open discussionFirst class typescript support instead of having to rely on https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter
In What's New in Create React AppThat's pretty sweet, especially because they do so without having to eject.
Direct link: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter
In What's New in Create React AppOfficial starter template for TypeScript and React
20 points · Open discussionTypeScript React Starter Project by Microsoft
3 points · Open discussion> create-react-app has built-in support for Flow but not TypeScript
This is no longer a downside, as of a few days ago: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter
In Should Flow and TypeScript combine forces?