Typescript Option

[mike-ward]

Generate an app that supports Typescript instead of ES6 or provide a simple migration path through documentation.

Another option is to simply add the Typescript loaders to the webpack.config.*.js configurations. Then the user can rename the files and clean up the minor syntax differences

Love this tool. I avoided React because of the tooling. Not anymore. Thanks!

[mxstbr]

We don't intend to provide Webpack specific overrides because it will be very fragile. People will start depending on specific loaders and plugins and we won't be able to improve the overall experience.

If we make everything configurable, this tool will become another webpack. If you’re comfortable doing this, you can use eject and tweak the options at any time.

Source: #99 (comment)

[gaearon]

TypeScript is a good option for many people. I think it's worth revisiting this in several months, but this is not on the plate right now.

[huiwang]

Hello guys, any updates to support typescript ?

[gaearon]

If there are any updates, they will be in this thread. 😉
No, we are not currently considering it.

[mattiamanzati]

@huiwang @mike-ward I've been working a bit and reasoning about this; i've started a PR discussion, feel free to test it and give your feedback. I'll do my best to keep the PR up to date with the master branch until most of create-react-app features will be settled and TypeScript support will be considered!
Atm it's a bit unstable, that's why feedback is welcome, so please report any problem with it!

Install and try it
create-react-app my-awesome-typescript-app-folder --scripts-version=git://github.com/mattiamanzati/create-react-app.git#typescript-support

Pull Request: #509

[heyimalex]

IMO, an independently maintained fork of create-react-app tailored for typescript would be a nice way forward. A lot of what this package provides wrt babel is obviated by typescript, and many things in the ts world that require custom config today, eg setting up jest, could be handled by the package as well.

Someone should pitch it to the typescript team: create-react-app has made react accessible to a lot of new developers, and it'd be a smart move to provide an equally nice experience with typescript as the base language. From experience, setting up a fork of react-scripts to compile ts took very little time and effort, and tracking changes from upstream wouldn't be terrible since I imagine most things could be merged without conflict. Low hanging fruit!

Hahaha wait I see that's already what you did 😊

[wmonk]

Hopefully this will be useful, but i'm now maintaining a fork of react-scripts called react-scripts-ts, that is (an should stay) up-to-date with react-scripts.

[quantuminformation]

Definitely a win-win to support ts. More and more questions about react and ts workflow these days.

[webeli]

@wmonk great initiative, will definitely try it out!

[tarurar]

@webeli How was it?

[spsoto]

Really interested in this feature too, since TypeScript suits fine for really large projects.

[Timer]

We're going to be exploring tight integration with Flow in an upcoming release which will enable first class support for typing.

[maxmalov]

Probably someone interested in typescript will find this useful: https://github.com/maxmalov/create-react-app-typescript-example This is an example how you can split application code across different local packages where most of them are written in typescript, more info you can find in the readme. I was using this approach not for a long time, but it's working for me well so far.