typescript support

[GopherJ]

Hi, it'll be good to have typescript

[mrrobot16]

It be amazing to have typescript support for the react template :)

[kulame]

i also need it

[AhanR]

I'd be interested in creating the typescript extension. Is anyone else working on this issue?

[gagdiez]

@AhanR nobody is working on it as far as I know

[AhanR]

Amazing, This will be my first PR, could you walk me through how could I go about it?
Here's how I understand it so far :

• create a fork
• make changes in the template folder
• and then push to the repo?

[AhanR]

@gagdiez could you help me out on exactly how to set this up? I know the libraries that I need to use but I am used to using Vite on my projects, how do I go about setting up the new template for react with typescript? Do I create a new folder under front-end?

[mrrobot16]

Amazing, This will be my first PR, could you walk me through how could I go about it? Here's how I understand it so far :

• create a fork
• make changes in the template folder
• and then push to the repo?

@AhanR Amazing man, this is gonna be very useful for the NEAR Community.

[AhanR]

Hey, I was reading through the readme and saw the developer guidelines and I still cannot figure out how to set up my environment for this project.

I first cloned the repo, and duplicated the react folder under templates/frontend and ran npm i and npm run start. This produces an error message

PS D:\Webdev\cloned repo\create-near-app-typescript-support\templates\frontend\react-ts> npm start

> my-near-app@1.0.0 start
> ./start.sh

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Can someone please help me set up the development environment? Thanks.

[chadoh]

@AhanR you may want to try Windows Subsystem for Linux. This development setup has not been tested on Windows, and that probably won't be the last gotcha you run into.

[gagdiez]

this issue had been stalled long enough, thus proving we don't have the bandwidth to take on it

However, we have decided to use Next.js for the frontend, which is industry standard, and I assume has guides on how to use typescript