Re:The Frontend Treadmill
by le-mark on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:09AM
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Is there a way to use typescript without pulling in all of npm? That’s the deal breaker for me, maybe others as well.
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Yes. E.g. bun [1] consumes typescript directly.
The current canonical TS compiler and language server are both written in JS/TS and run on Node (even though there's an ongoing effort for rewriting things in Go). They are relatively compact though; IIRC installing the Rust compiler or the Haskell compiler takes more space.
[1]: https://bun.sh/