typescript

README

Running TypeScript

gojs runs TypeScript with no external tooling. The ts package transpiles TypeScript to JavaScript in-process — it embeds a hoisting of Microsoft's typescript-go compiler — and hands the result to the VM.

go run ./examples/typescript

Expected output:

a: distance 5
b: distance 10
c: distance 1.4142135623730951
nearest to origin: c

The same two .ts files also run through the CLI:

go run ./cmd/gojs run ./examples/typescript/main.ts

Key points:

• ts.Provider(base) wraps any ModuleProvider so that .ts/.tsx modules are transpiled to JavaScript on load. Everything else about module loading — how a specifier resolves, where source comes from — stays with the base provider (here an in-memory map; use NewDirModuleProvider for a directory, or your own provider for a database, archive, or network). The provider is the file-inclusion hook.
• import "./geometry" resolves through the provider; the .ts extension is retried automatically, so extensionless TypeScript imports work.
• Transpilation is checker-free (the isolatedModules model): type annotations, interfaces, generics, and class visibility modifiers are erased/lowered, but the program is not type-checked — type errors are ignored. The goal is to run TypeScript, not validate it.
• For a self-contained script (no imports), ts.RunString(vm, name, src) transpiles and runs in one call.

enum, const enum, and namespace lower and run. Runtime error stack traces are source-mapped back to the original .ts line/column, not the transpiled JavaScript positions. JSX and decorators are not supported — they need a code transform gojs deliberately does not do, so they are rejected with a clear error rather than mis-compiled.

Documentation

Overview

Example: running TypeScript on the gojs VM, with no external tooling.

TypeScript is transpiled to JavaScript in-process by github.com/iceisfun/gojs/ts (which embeds a hoisting of Microsoft's typescript-go compiler) and executed by gojs. Transpilation is checker-free: types are erased and TypeScript syntax is lowered, but the program is not type-checked — the goal is to *run* TypeScript.

ts.Provider wraps any ModuleProvider so that .ts/.tsx modules are transpiled on load; file inclusion (resolution + storage) stays under host control. Here the two .ts files are embedded and served from an in-memory map, so imports between them resolve without touching the filesystem.

Run it from the repository root:

go run ./examples/typescript

The same files also run through the CLI:

go run ./cmd/gojs run ./examples/typescript/main.ts