Add Full Support For TypeScript

🚀 Feature

The ability to run docusaurus in a TypeScript environment

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines on issues?

Yes

Motivation

I would personally like to see this because myself and likely others prefer TypeScript to writing pure Node.js, and I believe it is a relatively small change.

Pitch

There are already 7 upvotes on the TypeScript suggestion by Zihua Wu on the Docusaurus 2 feedback website.

• It would require no new dependencies
• I am willing to work on a PR
• Modify how docusaurus loads files for rendering the website:
  • require() files without providing a specific extension
  • Support processing .ts and .tsx file extensions

[EvanDarwin]

@sarunast Your PR looks great, and is a simple change like I imagined.

@SleepWalker I think you will want to make a separate issue for Flow support, if that’s what you’re looking to do. Apologies, I misunderstood your question. I’m not sure about mdx or if Docusaurus already supports it – but I would still recommend separate feature requests for Flow and mdx support.

[sarunast]

I managed to get it work with TSX (docusaurus v2). Here is the config file from my project: https://github.com/sarunast/german-grammar/blob/master/webpackConfigPlugin/index.js

After that, you load it as a plugin in config. I guess it would be best if someone could create an actual plugin package.