JSPM support

[marinasundstrom]

The JavaScript Package Manager, JSPM, is a frictionless package manager for JavaScript that is able to pull packages from various sources ("endpoints", as they are called), such as Node Package Manager (NPM) and Bower. Unifying all in one interface.

It also has the ability to load EcmaScript 6 modules through the System.js library that implements a loader.

One notable feature is its support for transpilers, traceur (with AtScript) and Babel (formerly e6to5), that brings the new ES6 syntax and features and makes it easy to get started with building modern JavaScript applications.

JSPM brings a dynamic developer experience that pulls dependencies on the the fly. When an app is ready to be deployed it can then be compiled and dependencies can be bundled.

The JSPM configuration-file is based on the NPM package.json format.

TypeScript should support this new ecosystem too.

[red010b37]

Yes please!

[robcleghorn]

+1

[RichiCoder1]

Aurelia makes extensive use of JSPM, and having worked with both I'd 👍 this.

[atrauzzi]

👍

[ejsmith]

Yes please!

[RyanCavanaugh]

@mhegazy Accepting PRs?

[mhegazy]

I actually like the JSPM work flow, and we should do that :) a couple of thoughts:

• we need a transpile(input: string): string interface on the TS side, to make the interaction with the API clean and simple
• we need to emit into the system.js module structure, possibly a new --module system
• finally plugin typescript support to JSPM

PRs are definitely welcomed

[basarat]

we need a transpile(input: string): string interface on the TS side, to make the interaction with the API clean and simple

I am sure you already know : https://github.com/teppeis/typescript-simple , it now does inline sourcemaps : teppeis/typescript-simple#7 (I used it for atom/atom#5898)

[atrauzzi]

We have to make sure this comes out requiring zero configuration beyond any steps needed to get typescript initially installed.

[basarat]

@atrauzzi I was about to start work on this but noticed from : https://github.com/jspm/registry/blob/master/registry.json#L13 that there is jspm install ts from (https://github.com/frankwallis/plugin-typescript) by @frankwallis already.

Is there something more required?

[marinasundstrom]

I have not evaluted the extension yet. I don't know what level of support there is.

Can you debug the TS in the browser?