tslang-client ·

A client implementation for tsserver for TypeScript. Currently, it's just working but not completely tested.

You can see the details about tsserver in the TypeScript wiki

Rationale

TypeScript provides a powerful Type System. So I was trying to leverage the Type System to make good tooling environment for TypeScript based projects. and I found some facts:

• TypeScript provides full-featured Compiler API but slow and complicated.
• ts-simple-ast provides well-designed wrapper API around the Compiler API but slow for my needs.
• tsserver is fast but there is no library for communication with tsserver.

So I made this.

Requirements

• TypeScript 2.8 or above

Installation

npm install --save-dev tslang-client

Usage

import { TsLangClient } from 'tslang-client';
 
// Create a client instance
const client = new TsLangClient();
 
// Connect to installed tsserver
await client.connect();
 
// Call open(file) api
await client.api.open({ file: 'filename.ts' });
 
// Close the connection
client.close();

Import with CommonJS

tslang-client supports CommonJS-style module along with the ES2015-style.

const { TsLangClient } = require('tslang-client');

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