Use Web API as a dynamic runtime Typescript compiler

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:38:07 +0000

There’s been a lot of community buzz about Typescript recently – and rightfully so – as it solves a lot of Javascript’s issues, and despite being in its infancy, shows a tremendous amount of potential already.

One of the features (or side effects, depending on how you look at it) of Typescript, is that your are required to compile your code, to produce JS output. Sure, it is possible to dynamically compile Typescript in the browser (using its JS compiler), but that requires you to reference Typescript.js which is roughly 250 kB, and might be a tough pill to swallow.

However, using the ASP.NET Swiss army knife called Web API, and an approach we already disuussed on this blog before, let me show you how you can quite smoothly leverage on Web API pipeline to dynamically compile your Typescript code into Javascript at runtime.

More after the jump.

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Use Web API as a dynamic runtime Typescript compiler