Ionic and TypeScript: Part 1

Mike Hartington

Director of Developer Relation...

With so much focus on moving code towards ES6 and making it future-proof, I wanted to show you how you can start adopting tools like TypeScript to create an app that can be easily upgraded and maintained.

$ npm install gulp-tsc --save-dev

Here’s the Gulp build task for TypeScript:

var typescript = require('gulp-tsc');
var paths = {
  sass: ['./scss/**/*.scss'],
  src: ['./src/*.ts']
};

gulp.task('compile', function(){
  gulp.src(paths.src)
  .pipe(typescript({
     emitError: false
   ))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('www/js/'))

})

In my next post, I’ll go over how to use the static typings in TypeScript to annotate your code.