Vscode: Explore: Integrated TypeScript building/transpilation

[egamma]

Make it simpler to setup TypeScript compilation.
Can we make this incrementally?

[glen-84]

If you add this, please support the (not-yet-standard) compileOnSave tsconfig option.

See https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2326 and https://github.com/TypeStrong/atom-typescript/blob/master/docs/faq.md#i-dont-want-atom-typescript-compiling-my-js.

[glen-84]

Actually, wouldn't it be better to implement this as an extension, in support of "Don't create a monster, please!"?

[egamma]

Actually, wouldn't it be better to implement this as an extension

yes, this was our thinking as well

[movedoa]

Please integreate this, atom typescript is dead and this is really annoying in vs code :/

[dbaeumer]

@waderyan this is again asking for builder support.

[movedoa]

Any plans to integrate this in the near future?

[al6x]

Any news? The compileOnSave seems to be still ignored by vscode, is there any plans to implement it? I don't like the watch tasks, I don't want to configure any task, I just want my files compiled simply and magically.

[serbanghita]

As of now I spawn a new terminal and just run tsc -w, VSCode seems to not recognise compileOnSave yet, this is especially annoying when migrating from WebStorm (IntelliJ) who has this capability.

[MichaelGatesDev]

Still no news about support for this feature?

[Soul-Master]

Could someone help me to understand why VSCode doesn’t support compileOnSave flag? But VisualStudio supports this feature since the beginning of TypeScript.

If I understand correctly, both of these IDE rely on tsserver that run in separated process. VSCode supports TypeScript out of the box. But VS2019 requires to install TypeScript SDK for each version.