Official TypeScript support

[bootstraponline]

Is there any interest in officially supporting TypeScript in create-react-app? I think having to fork the repo to add support is a bit unfortunate.

Creating a react-scripts only fork is nice, however there's still a bunch of lightly modified upstream code.

[ianschmitz]

There is also https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired but i'm not sure how far that will get you compared to react-scripts-ts.

Also a bunch of related info with regards to maintaining a fork: #682

[bootstraponline]

TypeScript support is only ~254 lines of code. Rebasing is painful.

• ✅ Upstream sync (Nov 5 2017) wmonk/create-react-app-typescript#183

react-app-rewired is missing most of the features in create-react-app-typescript. ts-jest is unsupported by react-app-rewire-typescript.

[andriijas]

Make a PR to react-app-rewire-typescript to add ts-jest or write your own react-app-rewire plugin, its easy.

imo typescript doesnt belong in CRA.

[Timer]

Hi there! We're not quite ready to consider this yet but you can keep track of our Plugin System (#2784) and TypeScript Plugin (#2815).

[bootstraponline]

Make a PR to react-app-rewire-typescript to add ts-jest or write your own react-app-rewire plugin, its easy.

I don't think react-app-rewire is the answer. There are known issues with that approach.

The Plugin System looks amazing. Hopefully that gets merged soon.

[Timer]

TypeScript is now officially supported as of Create React App 2.1. Read the release notes to get started!