Using Jake with TypeScript

I’ve been playing around a lot lately with TypeScript and node.js, and have been using Jake as my make system. Oddly, I haven’t been able to find any npms that simplify Jake/TypeScript integration (maybe I’m not looking hard enough?), so I wrote a little one of my own, jake-typescript. It exposes two methods:

  • batchFiles takes a list of files and produces a Jake task that compiles each of the files separately (i.e. the default tsc behavior).
  • singleFile takes a list of files and produces a Jake file task that compiles all of the files into a single .js file (i.e. the –out behavior).

There’s also a structure to specify command-line arguments for the compile. It’s my first npm and I’m still getting up to speed on all the various conventions, definitely looking for feedback…

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