Re:Flow and TypeScript
by WorldMaker on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:04PM
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Typescript is written in itself and compiled to JS. You can use Typescript directly in the browser if you have the inclination. There's still speed tradeoffs, but you can even play with a Typescript REPL (http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/index.html).
There's a growing set of tools in the build tooling space called "Hot Module Reloading" (HMR). Webpack and JSPM/SystemJS both have picked up HMR tooling of different capabilities. HMR is very similar, from what I can tell, to the skewer-mode example you have posted: HMR tools watch for file changes, rebuild the bare necessary for those file changes, and via websockets between development server and browser communicate "live" reloading of modules as you work.
The work in HMR space is pretty impressive; I've started to rely on it in some webpack-built projects lately.
That said, "build step after every change like you're a C++ programmer" is a workflow that has survived a long time. There are some developers that prefer the comfortable routine of that workflow.
There's a growing set of tools in the build tooling space called "Hot Module Reloading" (HMR). Webpack and JSPM/SystemJS both have picked up HMR tooling of different capabilities. HMR is very similar, from what I can tell, to the skewer-mode example you have posted: HMR tools watch for file changes, rebuild the bare necessary for those file changes, and via websockets between development server and browser communicate "live" reloading of modules as you work.
The work in HMR space is pretty impressive; I've started to rely on it in some webpack-built projects lately.
That said, "build step after every change like you're a C++ programmer" is a workflow that has survived a long time. There are some developers that prefer the comfortable routine of that workflow.