I prefer Web Essentials: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/07d54d12-7133-4e15-becb-6f451ea3bea6
Has Less, SCSS and Coffeescript support, and now with TypeScript added (with sourcemaps) On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Michael Ridland <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah I use SCSS would not do web without it(well now anyway).... there's a > plugin called web workbench that will auto convert to normal css on save. > > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:52 PM, William Luu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> With regards to CSS. I've recently begun looking at a Project called Less >> CSS - http://lesscss.org with an associated .NET dynamic compiler - >> http://www.dotlesscss.org >> >> Like TypeScript, Less CSS is still CSS but with extra syntactic sugar on >> top (as well as other features). >> >> Has anyone else had experience with Less CSS? >> >> >> On 5 October 2012 14:03, Scott Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> JavaScript is dead to me.. I bow before the typescript ecma 6 overlords >>> .. Now to convert CSS to resource dictionaries and I may actually high five >>> HTML again >>> >>> On 05/10/2012, at 9:24 AM, "Michael Ridland" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Recently I spent 9 months full time doing Javascript building a large >>> application, I was open minded and learnt to like it. But coming back to c# >>> recently I realised just how many leagues better c# was than javascript(I >>> don't dare say this at sydjs). >>> >>> Typescript bring some really nice things to javascript that c# has but >>> it's still very much javascript(more than others eg CoffeeeScript). >>> >>> I can say TypeScript is amazingly awesome, you get the best of both >>> worlds. >>> >>> Like Coffeescript does, TypeScript will make you a much better >>> javascript programmer. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:14 AM, David Kean <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> While I’m still skeptical, the one advantage over other similar >>>> projects (such as Dart), is that it interops with existing JavaScript.* >>>> *** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> I think my favorite quote so far is, “hate JavaScript, then you’ll love >>>> TypeScript!”**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Davy Jones >>>> *Sent:* Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:41 AM >>>> *To:* ozDotNet >>>> *Subject:* Re: Opinions of TypeScript?**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> I haven't looked at it and probably won't. As far as I can see, the >>>> only new thing is static typing? JavaScript already has oo. There are >>>> enough technologies around js already why confuse matters more?**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> Davy**** >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my starfleet datapad.**** >>>> >>>> >>>> On 4 oct. 2012, at 10:27, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote:**** >>>> >>>> Folks, I just heard about >>>> TypeScript<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript>. >>>> It superficially seems like a good idea. Has anyone tried it? I’m >>>> downloading the VS2012 >>>> MSI<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34790>for it >>>> to see what it’s like. Let’s face, anything that makes JavaScript >>>> development easier will be welcome, but will TypeScript help or hinder? -- >>>> Greg**** >>>> >>>> >>> >> > -- Heinrich Breedt “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” - William B. Sprague
