Feature Request: Typescript Support

Is there any interest in supporting Typescript with the cli. As documented in the issue on the main repo, TypeScript support is workable and improving.

I think the missing piece for TS support is the CLI. I just wanted to gauge interest, as I would be happy to contribute to this.

If so, what would be the ideal approach:

>yo feathers-ts
? Project name test-proj
? Description
? What folder should the source files live in? src
? Which package manager are you using (has to be installed globally)? Yarn
? What type of API are you making? REST, Realtime via Socket.io

or one generator with a language option?

>yo feathers
? Project name test-proj
? Description
? What folder should the source files live in? src
? Which package manager are you using (has to be installed globally)? Yarn
? Which language would you like to use? TypeScript
? What type of API are you making? REST, Realtime via Socket.io

My preference would be the second one, although this is a slightly less convinient to implement.

[daffl]

Full TypeScript support is now also available in Feathers v4 and the @feathersjs/cli. It will not be deprecated.

[daffl]

Probably not at the moment. There is quite a bit of work involved in updating the codemods to work with TS and/or ES modules. There are three options:

1. Fork the generator and try updating the generated code to TS. Unless you get the codemods updated as well this will probably mean that with a TS generator you have to wire up generated hooks and services manually.
2. Wait for someone else to do it - we had two people do some great work around TypeScript but in general getting any actual help from the TypeScript “community” has been a big challenge
3. Wait for me to find the time to update the codemods to support ES modules and TS - this will probably happen when the latest version of Node officially ships with ES module support