light-ts-loader

2016 Dec. 7

@laco0416

What's light-ts-loader?

webpack loader for TypeScript source

laco0416/light-ts-loader

Other TypeScript Loaders

• TypeStrong/ts-loader (Most Popular)
• s-panferov/awesome-typescript-loader

Former TypeScript Bundling

a.ts

a.js

bundled.js

b.ts

b.js

c.ts

c.js

Type-checking

• Type-checking is heavy
  • Need to read all modules
• You can do it at other task
  • `tsc --noEmit`

Loader's responsibility
= Loading modules

light-ts-loader

a.ts

a.js

bundled.js

b.ts

b.js

c.ts

c.js

Transpiling

Module Resolution

module: {
    rules: [
        { test: /\.ts$/, loader: "light-ts-loader" },
    ],
},

$ npm i -D light-ts-loader

2.0 Roadmap

• More configurable
  • i.e. tsconfig path
• More tests
• Benchmark
  • v.s. other loaders

Thanks