{"id":8275,"date":"2018-09-05T06:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T22:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2019-02-18T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:37:25","slug":"aa2fwhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa2fwhu\/","title":{"rendered":"TypeScript and Babel 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #454545;font-family: WOL_Reg, 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;float: none\">Today we\u2019re excited to announce something special for Babel users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: WOL_Reg, 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;border: 0px;color: #454545;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: #ffffff\">Over a year ago, we set out to find what the biggest difficulties users were running into with TypeScript, and we found that a common theme among Babel users was that trying to get TypeScript set up was just too hard. The reasons often varied, but for a lot of developers, rewiring a build that\u2019s already working can be a daunting task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re excited to announce something special for Babel users. Over a year ago, we set out to find what the biggest difficulties users were running into with TypeScript, and we found that a common theme among Babel users was that trying to get TypeScript set up was just too hard. The reasons often varied, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus","category-vs4mac"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today we\u2019re excited to announce something special for Babel users. Over a year ago, we set out to find what the biggest difficulties users were running into with TypeScript, and we found that a common theme among Babel users was that trying to get TypeScript set up was just too hard. The reasons often varied, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}