There's a typescript gradle plugin https://github.com/sothmann/typescript-gradle-plugin
The Tapestry build could use this at build time to convert Typescript to Javascript which is published to maven central. So downstream consumers wouldn't need nodejs installed On 4 Apr 2017 12:13 p.m., "Jochen Kemnade" <jochen.kemn...@eddyson.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 04.04.2017 um 13:05 schrieb Bob Harner: > >> As I understand it the Typescript compiler is written Typescript, which >> can >> be compiled to JavaScript, and then that compiled compiler can be run in >> any compliant JavaScript engine, including Rhino that Tapestry already >> employs as well as the Nashorn engine built into Java 8. >> > > Not if they use Node API, for example for file access etc. But even if > they do that, there are ways to get it to work. You could rely on Node > being available on the PATH and just execute it, which is what > tapestry-react [1] does. > Or you could install a Node distribution on the fly and use that. > > Jochen > > [1] https://github.com/eddyson-de/tapestry-react > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
