TypeScript 2.0 has been released! Following this release, gulp-typescript 3 is now also available. This page gives an explanation of the (breaking) changes and the changes that are required to use this new version. 1. TypeScript is not bundled anymore Previously, gulp-typescript would automatically use the latest stable release

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TypeScript has downlevel emit for must constructs it supports. For instance, when you use a let declaration, it will be emitted as a normal variable when targeting ES3 or ES5. However, not all cases are supported. If you're using a block scoped variable (let or const) in a loop with

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Since TypeScript 1.5 is just released, it's a good moment to take a look at how we can integrate the new Visual Studio Code with gulp-typescript. Both support TypeScript 1.5 out of the box, and have support for a universal configuration file called tsconfig.json. About TypeScript 1.

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Previous week I released Microfill, a tool that dynamically loads the polyfills that are needed. For example, a Promise polyfill will only be loaded if Promise isn't supported in the current browser. How does that work? Instead of loading the script file, a file generated by Microfill is loaded. That

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This first post will be a small introduction to me and my blog. First of all, I'm Ivo Gabe de Wolff, a freelance developer and student mathematics and computing sciences at Utrecht University. I'm the author of various open source projects, including gulp-typescript. On this blog you can expect posts

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