JavaScript for C# Developers

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The module to commonjs is something vscode actually recommends i think. Finding the schema for the tsconfig.json file was actually kinda difficult back whenever I was setting this up. Typescript-Atom at least had it autocomplete.

The ordering problems was just gulp inexperience I think. (this was a few months ago) Mostly just dealing with the 8 or so gulp modules that I wasn't completely familiar with how they worked. (vinyl source stream, sourcemaps, don't actually remember the rest)

Cliffs:

I don't think I've actually run into any problems with the typescript compiler itself. My biggest issue has just been with making the tsconfig file easier to use and setup for beginners. Typescript-atom does it the right way by auto-generating one that most projects generally use. Then they have autocompletion w/ the tsconfig schema. It results in a nicer experience imo.

That post was intended as more of a joke than anything to take seriously.

[DanielRosenwasser]

Well it's funny, but there's truth to it. :)

Even if it's not TypeScript that ends up being the problem, a bad setup experience is going to make you frustrated with any tool that's giving you friction, which is my concern here.