Converting pbf to typescript - Both the compiler and the output.

[vicb]

I am interested in #107 that adds support for generating es6/typescript.

Also it seems like this repository would benefit from updates.

I would love to see the following happen:

1. Convert the current pbf code to Typescript (same functionality),
2. Update the compiler to generate Typescript code ONLY,
3. Call the Typescript compiler programmatically to convert to ES6, common-js, ...

What do you think ?

/cc @mourner

[til-schneider]

1. Convert the current pbf code to Typescript (same functionality)

This would certainly be a good idea.

2. Update the compiler to generate Typescript code ONLY,
3. Call the Typescript compiler programmatically to convert to ES6, common-js, ...

I don't think this is really necessary. In my pull request it only needs a few if statements around the parts which would add the type information into the generated code.

I would propose to keep it this way for the following reasons:

• faster at runtime
• less complexity as having to generate a temp file which is transpiled by TypeScript afterwards
• less runtime dependencies (since TypeScript would only be a dev dependency)

[mourner]

1. Convert the current pbf code to Typescript (same functionality)

Sorry but definitely not.

I am interested in #107 that adds support for generating es6/typescript.

Definitely planning on bringing that in though — let's keep the discussion there.