Parsing Typescript

[yankeeinlondon]

In the current environment I do understand that one can get some parsing of Typescript by stating "JavaScript" as the language but this is less than ideal. Typescript is one of the most popular languages today and it would be nice if we could get more specifics into the type system that are missing today. For instance a type in Typescript code is tagged as a variable.

I'm new to this library and still trying to fully put my head around what is what in terms of grammar but is there a way to adequately parse Typescript today or are we stuck with just the JavaScript parser?

[ipauler]

@yankeeinlondon
There's a solution
You'll need to first download Microsoft's official TypeScriptReact.tmLanguage file and save it somewhere.
Convert that .tmLanguage file to a .sublime-syntax file, using Sublime Text 3's builtin Plugin Development: Convert Syntax to .sublime-syntax command (important: only shows up when viewing .tmLanguage files)
Save the new .sublime-syntax file into e.g. testdata/Packages/TypeScript/TypeScriptReact.sublime-syntax
Run make assets.
from here

[indianakernick]

I would love to see the TypeScript syntax definitions brought into syntect (so that users don't have to download and install it themselves). It is one of the most used languages out there.