Maybe we can get a simple cli?

[vanyauhalin]

I thought it might be useful. I often have to use large tools like esbuild to simply transform TypeScript to JavaScript without actually doing anything complicated. I would gladly give them up in favor of this library. On the one hand, I think it is an interesting development, but I would not be inclined to extend the current API. I think it is complete, and that is great. If I were to solve this problem, I would create a separate ts-blank package that would include a very simple set of CLI-specific features, as well as a loader for Node.js. Yes, the current solution already contains a loader, but I would conceptually separate it. For now, these are just thoughts; I wanted to share them and learn yours.

Usage: ts-blank [options]

Options:
  --tsconfig    Path to the tsconfig.json

We can use the typescript --showConfig and access files, compilerOptions.rootDir, compilerOptions.outDir fields. The compilerOptions.allowImportingTsExtensions could be usefull too.

[acutmore]

Hi @vanyauhalin!

I would create a separate ts-blank package

Yeah, I completely agree. One goal of ts-blank-space is to remain focused on having one responsibility allowing other packages to wrap it and add extra functionality such as a CLI or bundler integrations.

[davidrhoderick]

What's the status on this @vanyauhalin? I was going to switch from tsc because it started giving me headaches on a legacy JS project where we are introducing TS and I think this would be a better alternative but introducing webpack to use ts-blank-space is not a good solution. A CLI like tsc would make this really killer...

[vanyauhalin]

@davidrhoderick Hi, David. I have a prototype of this CLI. It works, but it is not published yet. I have switched to other projects that do not use JavaScript at all, so the work has paused a bit. The fact that you wrote to me indicates that I am not the only one who needs this kind of CLI. I am glad you did. I will not promise anything, but I will try to get back to work as soon as possible.