Stencil: Using stenciljs without Typescript
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Current behavior:
From my research I have found that stenciljs cannot be used without typescript,
Expected behavior:
I would like to be able to use stenciljs without using typescript.
Other information:
I know this might not be inline with the standards you have set, but it would be good to know.
Some background is that we are considering using stenciljs with my team but would like to have the option to use it without typescript as not all our members know it at the moment and we have to consider that as the development speed will drop significantly at first.
stmoreau
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Some background is that we are considering using stenciljs with my team but would like to have the option to use it without typescript as not all our members know it at the moment and we have to consider that as the development speed will drop significantly at first.
I'm not on the Stencil team (just another person evaluating) but FWIW, the initial development speed may drop a bit, but just in my brief experience, trying both Stencil and TypeScript for the first time, with all the Intellisense offered using VSCode, it's been a waaay easier learning curve than learning React w/ vanilla JS. The fact it's using TypeScript has made it easier to learn Stencil, not harder, because so many hints are provided for decorators (also new to me) and method signatures.
matthew-dean
on 26 Nov 2018
You can also lax all the typescript rules (via tsconfig.json) and essentially use vanilla js (although I wouldn't recommend it)
snaptopixel
on 28 Nov 2018
I'd also like to know if it's intended not to support plain JS. I'd consider that a non-starter.
thepian
on 21 Feb 2019
I don't think there is any intention of supporting plain JS, TypeScript brings so much to the table, especially with how Stencil leverages it (typed JSX, props, etc) it's worth the "trouble"
snaptopixel
on 21 Feb 2019
All AST work is done in Typescript. So there is currently no way of writing stencil code without TS.
This would actually remove alot of the really nice features of Stencil. We are pretty set on keeping TS a requirement. Thanks!
jthoms1
on 2 Mar 2019
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I'm not on the Stencil team (just another person evaluating) but FWIW, the initial development speed may drop a bit, but just in my brief experience, trying both Stencil and TypeScript for the first time, with all the Intellisense offered using VSCode, it's been a waaay easier learning curve than learning React w/ vanilla JS. The fact it's using TypeScript has made it easier to learn Stencil, not harder, because so many hints are provided for decorators (also new to me) and method signatures.