{"id":666,"date":"2015-10-27T16:11:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2016-01-08T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T17:11:46","slug":"ionic-and-typescript-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/ionic-and-typescript-part-1","title":{"rendered":"Ionic and TypeScript: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n              <iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kVegt2E72ww\"frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n            <\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<pre><code>$ npm install gulp-tsc --save-dev\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Gulp build task for TypeScript:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"javascript\">var typescript = require(&#039;gulp-tsc&#039;);\nvar paths = {\n  sass: [&#039;.\/scss\/**\/*.scss&#039;],\n  src: [&#039;.\/src\/*.ts&#039;]\n};\n\ngulp.task(&#039;compile&#039;, function(){\n  gulp.src(paths.src)\n  .pipe(typescript({\n     emitError: false\n   ))\n  .pipe(gulp.dest(&#039;www\/js\/&#039;))\n\n})\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In my <a href=\"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/ionic-and-typescript-part-2\/\">next post<\/a>, I&#8217;ll go over how to use the static typings in TypeScript to annotate your code.<\/p>\n<h3>Additional resources<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typescriptlang.org\/\">Typescript Docs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npmjs.com\/package\/gulp-tsc\">Gulp-TSC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/\">Visual Studio Code<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Additional videos<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/ionic-and-typescript-part-2\/\">Ionic and TypeScript Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/ionic-and-typescript-part-3\/\">Ionic and TypeScript Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/ionic-and-typescript-part-4\/\">Ionic and TypeScript Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","tag-ionic"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v23.0) - 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