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

Check this github project by niutech, it can convert TypeScript code to JS code on the fly in browser, but I guess it can be easily be modified to work in node.js.

I found it while I'm investigating the possibility of support TypeScript in my live, firebug-inspired code editor.