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TypeScript support using Babel 7 #4837

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@brunolemos brunolemos commented Jul 29, 2018

Adds TypeScript support.

Closes #4146
Closes #2815

The user can just rename .js to .tsx and it will work.

To enable type checking, the user needs to create a tsconfig.json file at the root directory and install the typescript fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin dependencies. It will appear at the same console as the build one. Another option is to install only typescript and run npx tsc -w on a new terminal tab instead.

Includes

  • Support .ts and .tsx file extensions
  • Support type checking using fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin (opt in)
  • Support media imports json, bmp, gif, jpeg, jpg, png and svg
  • Support typescript option on react-app babel preset to enable/disable @babel/preset-typescript (enabled by default, just like flow)
  • Update docs
  • Basic test

These items were included, but removed per review suggestion

Pending suggestions (help wanted!)

  • Fix build test not passing even though it's correct (Tests are using code from npm instead of code from pull request #5440)
  • Add more advanced tests
  • Use async: true on type checking? (would need to fix errors not showing up) (it's ok for this first iteration)
  • Make sure ESLint works great on tsx files
  • Make sure there are no conflicts between typescript preset and flow plugin because both are being enabled together by default (none were found or reported by now)
  • Automatically generate a tsconfig.json when typescript is imported for the first time?
  • Check and force some tsconfig.json options like isolatedModules: true?
  • Remove typescript dependency? (will probably need to change something on fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin, because it isn't working without it)
  • Re-run type checking after changing files that webpack is not watching? (TypeScript support using Babel 7 #4837 (comment))
  • Enable type checking on test files using ts-jest? (TypeScript support using Babel 7 #4837 (comment)) (no)

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type TestType = 'a' | 'b'
const x: TestType = 123

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How to try this PR while it's not merged

  • Clone
    • git clone git@github.com:brunolemos/create-react-app.git
    • cd create-react-app
    • git checkout next-typescript
  • Compile
    • yarn
  • Create Link
    • cd packages/react-scripts/
    • yarn link
  • Create New Project
    • cd ~/your/projects/folder
    • npx create-react-app app-name
    • cd app-name
  • Use Link
    • yarn link react-scripts
  • Setup TypeScript
  • Finish
    • yarn start
    • Have fun with types 🎉

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One way to fix image imports TS error:

https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript/blob/e4b1f9424fa14f7aae7f0cbf5fd64e18dd273527/packages/react-scripts/template/images.d.ts

However this doesn't take into account the recent improvements made in CRA 2.0 such as #3718

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brunolemos commented Jul 30, 2018

@iainbeeston thanks! I added an index.d.ts file fixing jpg, png and svg.
It also includes typings for the svg ReactComponent.

We currently only have one template folder so this way the index.d.ts will be available on non-typescript projects as well, not sure if that's a problem. Maybe it's a good thing, because it adds autocomplete to js projects as well.

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declare module '*.jpg'

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I don't think this file should be called index.d.ts as this name will conflict with the automatically generated typings file for index.ts. In my projects I normally call this file externals.d.ts or similar but I don't really mind what it is called.

declare module '*.png'

declare module '*.svg' {
import * as React from 'react'
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To be consistent with index.js this should be import React from 'react'. This does assume that esModuleInterop: true is specified in tsconfig.json but I think this is best practice for new projects as it means that typescript and babel are more closely aligned.

declare module '*.svg' {
import * as React from 'react'

export const ReactComponent: React.SFC<React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>>

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I'm interested to know why this is needed?

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import 'jest';

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An alternative to adding this import is to add types: [ 'jest' ] to tsconfig.json

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I don't believe either should be needed. Typescript should pick up the node_modules/@types definitions automatically without any extra effort.

```json
{
"compilerOptions": {
"target": "ESNEXT",

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nit: capitalization

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Any thoughts when are we going to get this through?

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samuelcastro commented Oct 19, 2018

@brunolemos I saw that these items were removed:

  • TSLint support using fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin
  • ESLint support for TypeScript files using typescript-eslint-parser

Any reasons why? Which one should we use, would tslint make more sense since it's typescript? And last, how to use it with tslint?

@brunolemos brunolemos force-pushed the next-typescript branch 2 times, most recently from 16ef21d to 67fa674 Compare October 20, 2018 11:34
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brunolemos commented Oct 20, 2018

@samuelcastro: I saw that these items were removed, any reasons why?

TL/DR, ESLint was not enabled on ts files because it requires typescript-eslint-parser which is still not mature and has a big Help Wanted! banner in the readme, which could cause maintainability issues for the CRA team. It also targets specific versions of typescript which could prevent users from upgrading. (#4837 (comment), #4837 (comment))

TSLint built-in support was removed because CRA itself does not lint style preferences, but only critical things like undeclared variable names and typescript already has good defaults for this. Also, the user can run tslint on their own with no problem. (#4837 (comment))

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stunaz commented Oct 20, 2018

Great! Now what? Release, shall we?

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alexdor commented Oct 21, 2018

Huge thanks to @brunolemos for all his effort and of course huge thanks to the team of create react app : ) Can't wait for this to be released : )

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brunolemos commented Oct 21, 2018

IT'S MERGED 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks everyone for the motivation and reviews, and thanks @Timer for merging!

EDIT: Just tweeted about it

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RIP21 commented Oct 21, 2018

Amazing stuff! :) Finally :)

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nucab commented Oct 22, 2018

Many thanks to @brunolemos for your efforts.. Looking forward for the release :)

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I'm so happy this has merged!

A future improvement could be strongly typed JSON support by setting this option in tsconfig.json:

	"resolveJsonModule": true

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Awesome. Thank you!

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Timer commented Oct 23, 2018

I've locked this PR since it's high profile and to keep notification spam low. We'll post updates here when we have them.

Please file any concerns as new issues, thanks!

@brunolemos brunolemos deleted the next-typescript branch October 23, 2018 13:28
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Timer commented Oct 30, 2018

TypeScript is now officially supported as of Create React App 2.1. Read the release notes to get started!

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