[Feature Request] An option to simplify the enum output

[yangmingshan]

Standard enum output is pretty complex.

// Input
enum ElementTypes {
  ELEMENT,
  COMPONENT,
  SLOT,
  TEMPLATE
}

// Output
var ElementTypes = /* @__PURE__ */ ((ElementTypes2) => {
  ElementTypes2[ElementTypes2["ELEMENT"] = 0] = "ELEMENT";
  ElementTypes2[ElementTypes2["COMPONENT"] = 1] = "COMPONENT";
  ElementTypes2[ElementTypes2["SLOT"] = 2] = "SLOT";
  ElementTypes2[ElementTypes2["TEMPLATE"] = 3] = "TEMPLATE";
  return ElementTypes2;
})(ElementTypes || {});

But most of the time we just want a simple output.

// Input
enum ElementTypes {
  ELEMENT,
  COMPONENT,
  SLOT,
  TEMPLATE
}

// Output
var ElementTypes = {
  ELEMENT: 0,
  COMPONENT: 1,
  SLOT: 2,
  TEMPLATE: 3
}

Many people mentioned this in #128 as well.

[evanw]

You are asking me to change what TypeScript enums mean and how they behave (i.e. change enums from a two-way map to a one-way map and remove support for declaration merging), but that’s not something I can do. I do not have any say in how the TypeScript language is supposed to work. You will have to take up your complaint with Microsoft themselves: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues.