MImikewhy·Oct 30, 2018
I use react-scripts-ts. There's an open issue discussing the future of it now that CRA does it on its own.
https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript/issues/...
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DEPRECATED: Create React apps using typescript with no build configuration.
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11 sourcesThere's still react-scripts-ts [1] which drops the majority of Babel in the CRA pipeline for solely Typescript. Presumably, it will remain active as it is still a useful alternative if you know you are going to want Typescript from day one. (This Babel-based support is perfect for those unsure and looking to experiment, which is great.)
[1] https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript
In TypeScript support added to Create React AppWhat sort of errors are you running into, and what project setup are you using?
If you're using Create-React-App-TS, that's a separate fork of CRA 1.x that adds TS support, and has _horribly_ restrictive lint rules (many common style practices are treated as _compile_ errors). See https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript/issues/... for discussion. (I ran across this while trying to set up a TS project for another team.)
I'm happy to see the TS support in CRA 2.x, because now I can actually recommend that people use it to get started with TS support.
I personally had never actually _used_ TS at all until this last week, when I was helping that same team rework some of their code. They'd been slapping `someVar : any` across the entire codebase just to make the compiler shut up. I tried adding a type representing their API re
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sponse object, added it as a prop to the appropriate React component, and showed them how you could start getting autocomplete and compile-time catching of mistakes, and suddenly they began to see that there were actually benefits of using TS, not just overhead. I'm hoping to try adding TS support in to my own team's codebase in the near future.
Worth noting that the CRA-TS project (a totally separate repo) is in the process of merging in the changes from CRA 2.0: https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript/issues/...
In Create React App 2.0: Babel 7, Sass, and MoreWe're actually looking at removing the type definitions from the Redux core and punting them over to DefinitelyTyped, because neither of us primary maintainers use TS ourselves and we don't have the experience to maintain the type definitions.
Also, the CRA-TS fork runs, but the one time I played with it was when I tried to help another team set up their project, and that's when I found out it has _ridiculously_ restrictive default linting rules. Every lint error is a compile error, and it flags things like using arrow functions in render methods, which is absurd (see discussion at https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript/issues/... ).
In TypeScript at GoogleAlthough it's clear that Facebook's libraries, among which React, favour Flow, there's strong community demand for TypeScript even around React. Thus, the type definitions that are available for React are excellent, Redux even includes its type definitions natively, and most of the large tools in the React ecosystem work pretty well with TypeScript.
The main large project you're likely to use that does not really play well with TypeScript yet is create-react-app. There's a TypeScript fork [1] which works reasonably well, but "reasonable" is not really what you'd hope.
That said, the strong community push means that they're at least considering it. [2]
[1] https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript
[2] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/2815
In TypeScript at GoogleAs I commented above, you might want to take a look at https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript.
It’s really helped reduce some of that 3rd party lib / buildchain JS fatigue for me.
In Angular 5.0.0I’ve been using a fork of facebook’s create-react-app with typescript to generate new projects lately. It’s been great, zero friction. https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript
In Angular 5.0.0Create React apps using typescript
1 points · Open discussionYeah sorry, I linked to the post in the hope that this gains a bit of traction as really want people to be aware that getting started with TS and React is a whole lot easier now! I have a fairly popular blog post on the topic of setting up TS and React that I'll update to point to the Microsoft repo to help spread the word.
Here's the package that adds the TS functionality to create-react-app FYI: https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript
In What's New in Create React App