Rewrite project into TypeScript

[christian-bromann]

We made the experience that switching to TypeScript had a good impact on the code quality and development velocity. We should also rewrite this project into TypeScript to leverage from the same.

[VedanthB]

I would like to work on this.

[christian-bromann]

Awesome, thanks for stepping in. I would suggest to tackle this in small pieces, e.g. rather raising many small PRs than one huge one.

[VedanthB]

Okay should i start with installing typescript in the project and then write the files in typescript one by one ?

[christian-bromann]

@VedanthB sounds like a good approach, maybe have a first PR that provides the TS setup and already have the package point to the compiled JS files. Then a PR for every file.

[VedanthB]

I'll submit the PR in a day 😄

[VedanthB]

Can i get help to get this running on my local machine ?

[christian-bromann]

Can i get help to get this running on my local machine ?

Sure, where do you struggle with? Did you check out the Contributing guidelines. It isn't much but it helped me to get it setup locally.

[VedanthB]

i have cloned the project and npm install , what would be the next steps?

[christian-bromann]

what would be the next steps?

You should be able to run all tests via npm test now. The next step is setup TypeScript.