typescript

install

npm install -g typescript

Compile

tsc helloworld.ts

kate

https://github.com/PrettyFlower/KateTypeScriptSyntaxHighlighting

wget https://github.com/PrettyFlower/KateTypeScriptSyntaxHighlighting/raw/master/typescript.xml
cp typescript.xml /usr/share/apps/katepart/syntax/typescript.xml

With let keyword added

   1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   2 <!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">
   3 <language name="TypeScript" section="Scripts" extensions="*.ts;"
   4         indenter="cstyle" author="PrettyFlower (abigchode@gmail.com)">
   5 <highlighting>
   6     <list name="keywords">
   7         <item> if </item>
   8         <item> else </item>
   9         <item> for </item>
  10         <item> in </item>
  11         <item> while </item>
  12         <item> do </item>
  13         <item> continue </item>
  14         <item> break </item>
  15         <item> with </item>
  16         <item> try </item>
  17         <item> catch </item>
  18         <item> finally </item>
  19         <item> switch </item>
  20         <item> case </item>
  21         <item> new </item>
  22         <item> var </item>
  23         <item> function </item>
  24         <item> return </item>
  25         <item> delete </item>
  26         <item> true </item>
  27         <item> false </item>
  28         <item> void </item>
  29         <item> throw </item>
  30         <item> typeof </item>
  31         <item> const </item>
  32         <item> default </item>
  33         <item> this </item>
  34         <item> null </item>
  35         <item> undefined </item>
  36         
  37         <item> class </item>
  38         <item> export </item>
  39         <item> declare </item>
  40         <item> module </item>
  41         <item> import </item>
  42         <item> static </item>
  43         <item> interface </item>
  44         <item> implements </item>
  45         <item> constructor </item>
  46         <item> public </item>
  47         <item> private </item>
  48         <item> string </item>
  49         <item> number </item>
  50         <item> bool </item>
  51         <item> any </item>
  52         <item> extends </item>
  53         <item> let </item>
  54     </list>
  55     
  56     <contexts>
  57         <context attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#stay" name="Normal">
  58             <DetectSpaces/>
  59             <keyword attribute="Keyword" context="#stay" String="keywords"/>
  60             <DetectChar attribute="String" context="String" char="&quot;"/>
  61             <DetectChar attribute="String Char" context="String 1" char="'"/>
  62             <StringDetect attribute="Reference" context="Reference" String="///" />
  63             <Detect2Chars attribute="Comment" context="Comment" char="/" char1="/"/>
  64             <Detect2Chars attribute="Comment" context="Multi/inline Comment" char="/" char1="*" beginRegion="Comment"/>
  65             <DetectIdentifier/>
  66         </context>
  67         
  68         <context attribute="String" lineEndContext="#pop" name="String">
  69             <DetectIdentifier/>
  70             <HlCStringChar attribute="String Char" context="#stay"/>
  71             <LineContinue attribute="String" context="#stay"/>
  72             <DetectChar attribute="String" context="#pop" char="&quot;"/>
  73         </context>
  74         
  75         <context attribute="String Char" lineEndContext="#pop" name="String 1">
  76             <DetectIdentifier/>
  77             <HlCStringChar attribute="String Char" context="#stay"/>
  78             <LineContinue attribute="String" context="#stay"/>
  79             <DetectChar attribute="String Char" context="#pop" char="'"/>
  80         </context>
  81 
  82         <context attribute="Comment" lineEndContext="#pop" name="Comment">
  83             <DetectSpaces />
  84             <IncludeRules context="##Alerts" />
  85             <DetectIdentifier />
  86         </context>
  87         
  88         <context attribute="Comment" lineEndContext="#stay" name="Multi/inline Comment">
  89             <IncludeRules context="##Alerts" />
  90             <Detect2Chars attribute="Comment" context="#pop" char="*" char1="/" endRegion="Comment"/>
  91         </context>
  92         
  93         <context attribute="Reference" lineEndContext="#pop" name="Reference">
  94             <DetectChar attribute="ReferenceBracket" context="#stay" char="&lt;"/>
  95             <DetectChar attribute="ReferenceBracket" context="#stay" char="&gt;"/>
  96             <DetectChar attribute="ReferenceFile" context="ReferenceFile" char="&quot;"/>
  97             <DetectChar attribute="ReferenceFile" context="ReferenceFile 1" char="'"/>
  98         </context>
  99         
 100         <context attribute="ReferenceFile" lineEndContext="#pop" name="ReferenceFile">
 101             <DetectIdentifier/>
 102             <HlCStringChar attribute="ReferenceFile" context="#stay"/>
 103             <LineContinue attribute="ReferenceFile" context="#stay"/>
 104             <DetectChar attribute="ReferenceFile" context="#pop" char="&quot;"/>
 105         </context>
 106         
 107         <context attribute="ReferenceFile" lineEndContext="#pop" name="ReferenceFile 1">
 108             <DetectIdentifier/>
 109             <HlCStringChar attribute="ReferenceFile" context="#stay"/>
 110             <LineContinue attribute="ReferenceFile" context="#stay"/>
 111             <DetectChar attribute="ReferenceFile" context="#pop" char="'"/>
 112         </context>
 113     </contexts>
 114     <itemDatas>
 115         <itemData name="Normal Text" defStyleNum="dsNormal"/>
 116         <itemData name="Keyword" defStyleNum="dsNormal" color="#00f"/>
 117         <itemData name="Char" defStyleNum="dsChar"/>
 118         <itemData name="String" defStyleNum="dsString" color="#a31515"/>
 119         <itemData name="String Char" defStyleNum="dsString" color="#a31515"/>
 120         <itemData name="Comment" defStyleNum="dsNormal" italic="true" color="#080"/>
 121         <itemData name="Reference" defStyleNum="dsNormal" color="#aeb9ae"/>
 122         <itemData name="ReferenceBracket" defStyleNum="dsNormal" color="#708870" bold="true"/>
 123         <itemData name="ReferenceFile" defStyleNum="dsNormal" color="#2c51cc"/>
 124     </itemDatas>
 125 </highlighting>
 126 <general>
 127     <comments>
 128         <comment name="singleLine" start="//" />
 129         <comment name="multiLine" start="/*" end="*/" />
 130     </comments>
 131     <keywords casesensitive="1"/>
 132 </general>
 133 </language>

Sample code typescript for browser

   1 npm install -g typescript
   2 npm install -g webpack

greeter.html

   1 <!DOCTYPE html>
   2 <html>
   3     <head><title>TypeScript Greeter</title><meta charset="UTF-8"></head>
   4     <body>
   5         <script src="dist/bundle.js"></script>
   6     </body>
   7 </html>

lib.ts

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/modules.html

Any declaration (such as a variable, function, class, type alias, or interface) can be exported by adding the export keyword.

export function getText(){
    return "text";
}

greeter.ts

import xyz from "module";

import {getText} from "./lib";

interface Person {
    firstName: string;
    lastName: string;
}

function greeterPerson(p:Person) {
    return "Hello GP, " + p.firstName + ' ' + p.lastName + ' ' + getText() ;
}

function greeter(person:string) {
    return "Hello, " + person;
}

var user = "XPTO User";

//document.body.innerHTML = greeter(user);
document.body.innerHTML = greeterPerson( 
{firstName:"First",lastName:"Last"}  
);

tsconfig.json

   1 {
   2     "compilerOptions": {
   3         "module": "es6",
   4         "noImplicitAny": true,
   5         "removeComments": true,
   6         "preserveConstEnums": true,
   7         "sourceMap": true
   8     },
   9  "files": [ "greeter.ts",  "lib.ts"] 
  10 }

webpack.config.js

   1 var path = require('path');
   2 
   3 module.exports = {
   4   entry: ['./greeter.js','./lib.js'],
   5   output: {
   6     filename: 'bundle.js',
   7     path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist')
   8   }
   9 };

build

   1 tsc
   2 webpack --config webpack.config.js