Use TypeScript compiler from node

Question

It\'s pretty easy to do this with coffee-script.

var coffee = require(\'coffee-script\');
coffee.compile(\"a = 1\");
//=> \'(function() {\\n  var a;\\n\\n  a          


        

Answer 1

It seems that nowadays there is a simpler solution, you can do:

let ts = require('typescript');
let source = ts.transpileModule('class Test {}', {}).outputText;

This results in:

"use strict";
var Test = (function () {
    function Test() {
    }
    return Test;
}());