kihu Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Hi,I'm coming from AS3/Flash background, currently researching possibilities of HTML/WebGL development. For the past week I've been trying out various approaches to js, ended up focusing on Typescript. I'm currently struggling to pick and setup an IDE. Currently I'm using Visual Studio Express, however it lacks essential functions like code generation and templates.What is your ts IDE of choice? What are some tools/configuration tips you use to make the development easier?thanks,kihu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Visual Studio Pro is the only IDE worth using with TypeScript imho. You could try WebStorm too, it does a decent job, but it reeks of eclipse Javaness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kihu Posted October 22, 2013 Author Share Posted October 22, 2013 Yes, I've heard VS pro supports code generation. Right now I'm trying out WebStorm, as you mentioned. So far it's really really nice. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suyashmshephertz Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 I use sublime text editor. I have installed typescript through Package Control. https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/TypeScript Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarler Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Hello, Has there been any progress with Typescript IDEs since the original post? I'd been getting on well with Visual Studio for the past 12+ months, but recently it has started to chew up memory - rocketing up to 2GB usage. (I'm not sure if this is indicative of a problem with my projects). Brackets is nice and light and the extension I've been using works well (brackets-typescript-code-intel), but it doesn't seem to cope with chains of references (whereas VS did). I do so love Typescript..... Thanks,James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuuuurija Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Similar to you, my background is AS3, I recommend "IntelliJ IDEA" Ultimate version. (probably the best IDE I have tried so far). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
away168 Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 JetBrains my friend, get JetBrains now!! .. in detail, JetBrains WebStorm is cheaper and great to use. With that I could embed a small server to run in localhost to host my game locally for testing using Node.js, also make a simple compiler to do anything I want the results or whatever within the project. In my opinion JetBrains has the best code completion for JavaScript as well, so in case your code is crazily complex, it can intelligently suggest related functions/variables, even though technically they don't know where it is from due to JS nature of being dynamic. I don't know how to do it in Visual Studio, but JetBrains gives me the freedom I ever wanted for more than 3 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d13 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 I would just choose a text editor and add some plug-ins.There are lots of them (the first three are free) http://www.lighttable.comhttp://brackets.iohttps://atom.iohttp://www.sublimetext.com ... and of course there's always vim with tmux, which is as configurable as you need it to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enriqueto Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I use webstorm but sometimes it doesn't work as expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adgard Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Used webstorm, visual studio and flashdevelop. So my opinion is webstorm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarler Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Thanks for all the feedback. Further to my previous post. there is a new version of the "brackets-typescript" extension which is working like a charm. It copes with chains of references, and does error checking too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreeba Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Because this topic is well indexed on Google I will update it a little. I think TypeScript has matured a lot since 2013. There is also a lot of support for it in different IDEs now. One great one is Visual Studio Code, which is made by microsoft, but is more similar to Atom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b10b Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Yes, I'm a daily TS user and would say since TS2 that VS Code has become my go-to IDE (small, mostly quick, does the job out-of-the-box and is linked to the release cycle of TS). I used Atom prior and it had some nice workarounds for the limitations of TS1 tsconfig, but I found it increasingly unresponsive dependent upon the size of project, and the workarounds were no longer of benefit (to me). Both of these IDEs use a webview, which may be the cause of the graphical performance issues I encountered - notching them into fullscreen modes can improve things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahiko Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 VS Code is an IDE I'm pretty satisfied with. Light, responsive and with a lot of plugins. You can't be wrong using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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