Loading the TypeScript compiler into ClearScript, “WScript is undefined”, impossible task?

Question

I tried using ClearScript to load the TypeScript compiler in order to compile some basic TypeScript code.

Unfortunately, when executing the TypeScript compiler source I

Answer 1

After 4 years, using the TypeScript 2.7 Services at https://rawgit.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/master/lib/typescriptServices.js it's kind of a two-liner now:

• initialize your favorite JS engine with this script
• load the string contents of your *.ts resource
• get a function reference of ts.transpile
• feed it the type script as a string and get back a string with the transpiled source

Using e.g. a ClearScript engine in C# with TS sourcecode in the string src this would be:

dynamic transpile = engine.Evaluate("ts.transpile");
var js = transpile(src);
// now feed the string js into a different JS engine