This package provides an unofficial NPM distribution of Microsoft's TypeScript-Go project, which is a Go-based port of TypeScript.
This is NOT an official package from the TypeScript team. It is published as a convenience for testing and evaluation purposes only. The TypeScript-Go project is still under active development and considered experimental.
Per this discussion, the official team currently has no plans to publish an NPM package as the project is still very incomplete.
This unofficial package allows developers to:
- Try TypeScript-Go without building from source
- Test integration with existing tooling
- Experiment with the Go-based TypeScript implementation
npm install @mxyhi/tsgoThis package provides the tsgo binary which functions similarly to tsc:
# Check a TypeScript file (similar to tsc)
npx tsgo tsc path/to/file.ts
# Use a tsconfig.json file
npx tsgo tsc --project path/to/tsconfig.jsonFor LSP (Language Server Protocol) usage, please refer to the official repository for setup instructions.
The package is automatically built and published every 6 hours at 00:00, 06:00, 12:00, and 18:00 UTC. Each build includes the latest changes from the TypeScript-Go repository.
As noted in the official repository, TypeScript-Go is still a work in progress with many features incomplete. Current limitations include:
- Not all resolution modes are supported
- JavaScript-specific inference and JSDoc are not ready
- JSX support is not ready
- Declaration emit is not ready
- Emit (JS output) is in progress (only
target: esnextis well-supported) - Watch mode is prototype-only
- Build mode / project references are not ready
- Incremental build is not ready
- Language service (LSP) is prototype-only with minimal functionality
This unofficial package will be updated periodically as significant progress is made in the TypeScript-Go repository. When the official team decides to publish an official package, this unofficial package will be deprecated in favor of the official one.
For issues related to TypeScript-Go itself, please file them in the official repository.
For issues specific to this NPM package distribution, please file them in https://github.com/mxyhi/tsgo-npm-release.
The TypeScript project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.