ETS

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ETS

AngeloCore opened this issue a year ago · comments

Angelo II commented a year ago

EJS but with typescript support?

Matthew Eernisse · Answer 1 · Mon Jan 30 2023 04:25:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The "JS" in EJS is for "JavaScript." The main benefit of EJS is that it is simply JavaScript. That's the entire point.

Angelo II · Answer 2 · Mon Jan 30 2023 06:52:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I mean add support for types when embedding

Matthew Eernisse · Answer 3 · Mon Jan 30 2023 06:58:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I understand what you meant. It's not something I intend to pursue for EJS.

nhusby · Answer 4 · Thu Feb 23 2023 03:41:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This would be very helpful. We are going all in on TypeScript and it's preventing a lot of bugs. We still run into issues with templates crashing and preventing emails going out because a junior dev came along and changed the input data somewhere upstream not realizing it impacts data required by a template because there is no visibility into its requirements without scanning through the whole thing.

Actually using typing is optional, which makes TypeScript really easy to adopt... it's just JavaScript, but I get that you're not interested... it's probably something that should be a fork anyway.

@mde any advice for forking?

Angelo II · Answer 5 · Thu Feb 23 2023 03:58:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Also a proper vscode extension wouldn't be bad 😅

Matthew Eernisse · Answer 6 · Fri Feb 24 2023 00:14:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Nothing to prevent your using EJS in your own TS code. As you say, it's a superset of JavaScript. I know exactly what TypeScript is, and how it works. I have used it. And as I have already said numerous times, I don't find it to be a good tradeoff in terms of return on investment. I have zero plans for adopting it for EJS.