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pluma on July 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing TypeScript 1.5

> JS API

I mean a JS interface to the transpiler. At the time there was only the CLI, nothing that worked on strings or streams within node code.

> IDE support ... strict typing ...

Ditto for flow, though.

AntiRush on July 20, 2015 | [–]

The compiler api has gotten a lot better: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Using-the-Compi...

If you just want string->string compilation, there's typestring, which wraps the api: https://www.npmjs.com/package/typestring

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