TS generates "use strict" in front of everything, this makes impossible to use its output for Task Runner Explorer without touching the output manually (or by script)

TypeScript Version: 2.2.1 - 2.9.1

TS generates the “use strict” before starting notes in the js file. These notes can include directions for post-processing tools, or another tools like Task Runner Explorer in Visual Studio which looks for the binding information on the first line of the gulpfile.js or gruntfile.js. It is necessary to write a post-build task to fix this and makes it impossible to include the binding information directly to ts file if gulpfile or gruntfile is written in typescript.

Code

/// <binding Clean='clean' ProjectOpened='projectOpen' />
/* some notes */
function test(): void {
}

Expected behavior:

/// <binding Clean='clean' ProjectOpened='projectOpen' />
/* some notes */
"use strict";
function test() {
}

Actual behavior:

"use strict";
/// <binding Clean='clean' ProjectOpened='projectOpen' />
/* some notes */
function test() {
}

[wilsonianb]

I’m currently encountering this while trying to use @jest-environment docblock at the top of files with TypeScript version 3.6.3

[fis-cz]

@pchodak Yes. I did. As well as many other problems with typescript which are not fixed or not wanted to be implemented. I moved to “es next” and I am using babel to transpile to ES5 if I need.