CLI tool / usage in CI

[tmr232]

I just watched the video presenting this tool, and it looks amazing! Thanks for the hard work!

I have one suggestion - can we have a CLI tool that goes over the .tb files and generates the types from them?
Since this is doing code-generation, I'd like to have a way to verify, in CI, that the current generated code matches the type-buddy files.
Additionally, a CLI tool would mean that it's also usable for people using IDEs without the plugin.

Thanks!

[chwoerz]

Thanks :)

Sure, I will create a CLI for this 👍. Great idea

[davidsl4]

A CLI tool would also benefit those using different IDEs, but I have another, more intriguing solution.

With babel transformers we could make it automatically convert a custom syntax, for example, type function Simple<T> {} to TS's syntax type Simple<T> = ..., and that output would then be used by the tsc to compile.

Usually, I would proceed with that solution, make a POC develop the idea to its completion, and then create a pull request, but I can see a problem we will face ahead of time, and it is the syntax highlighting in the different IDEs, that won't recognize the type function syntax, and for that, I don't have a solution.

A more permanent solution would be filing a TypeScript proposal to incorporate this feature in the TypeScript language natively.