Hey I just want to follow up. I have been using Parcel for a TypeScript application for a few weeks now and I found your article while trying to figure it out. Like I mentioned before, Parcel does not actually compile the .ts files. It just strips the annotations and bundles the regular JavaScript. But I have found that most of the functionality of TypeScript happens in the IDE. I use Sublime Text and there is an excellent TypeScript linter for it, so all the type-checking is done there while I code and that works great. It turns out I never actually use the tsc compiler anyway.
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Hey I just want to follow up. I have been using Parcel for a TypeScript application for a few weeks now and I found your article while trying to figure it out. Like I mentioned before, Parcel does not actually compile the
.tsfiles. It just strips the annotations and bundles the regular JavaScript. But I have found that most of the functionality of TypeScript happens in the IDE. I use Sublime Text and there is an excellent TypeScript linter for it, so all the type-checking is done there while I code and that works great. It turns out I never actually use thetsccompiler anyway.Yes, mostly of typescript features are only in development and runs in the IDE.
I highly recommend give a try to VSCode but Sublime works fine.