@babel/plugin-syntax-typescript
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Allow parsing of TypeScript syntax
See our website @babel/plugin-syntax-typescript for more information.
Using npm:
npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-syntax-typescript
or using yarn:
yarn add @babel/plugin-syntax-typescript --dev
The TypeScript package is the official compiler for TypeScript. Unlike @babel/plugin-syntax-typescript, it performs both parsing and compilation of TypeScript code into JavaScript, including type checking. It's a more comprehensive solution for projects that are exclusively using TypeScript.
This package is an ESLint parser that allows ESLint to lint TypeScript code. It's similar to @babel/plugin-syntax-typescript in that it enables understanding of TypeScript syntax, but it's specifically focused on linting rather than transforming code.
ts-node is a TypeScript execution engine and REPL for Node.js. It allows you to directly run TypeScript files in Node.js without pre-compiling them. This is different from @babel/plugin-syntax-typescript, which only parses TypeScript syntax for Babel transformations and does not include an execution environment.
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Allow parsing of TypeScript syntax
The npm package @babel/plugin-syntax-typescript receives a total of 31,977,579 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/plugin-syntax-typescript popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @babel/plugin-syntax-typescript demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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