Enhancement: Implement Tsickle for Google Closure Compiler

[TheLarkInn]

Currently there is an angular project which I think could benefit all Typescript users.

As we all know, Google closure compiler is still the most efficient minifier, however requires annotations for it to be used in ADVANCED mode.

https://github.com/angular/tsickle

This project is using a baked tsc that automagically converts decorators and types to annotations that allow for GCC to understand.

Since Webpack2 is implementing LoaderOptionsPlugin which hands the responsibilities of minifying to the loader, it would be perfect timing to add a minify feature into the loader.

Thoughts?

Cross reference post to both ts loaders.
s-panferov/awesome-typescript-loader#153

[nathanosdev]

Would love to see this! Need any help?

[johnnyreilly]

If you'd like to have a crack at implementation then go for it! We gratefully accept PRs

[nathanosdev]

Did you have any preferences on the configuration for this? Like just a boolean flag to turn tsickle on or off from the user's point of view?

[johnnyreilly]

That sounds like a good starting point. Essentially anything can be refined at any point though - have a play and see what you come up with would be my advice.

[nathanosdev]

Sounds good, I'll post back when I come up with something.

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Closing as stale. Please reopen if you'd like to work on this further.