typescript.el is a major-mode for editing Typescript-files in GNU Emacs.

typescript.el is a self-contained, lightweight and minimalist major-mode focused on providing basic font-lock/syntax-highlighting and indentation for Typescript syntax, without any external dependencies.

Output from tsc and tslint is also handled seamlessly through compilation-mode.

typescript.el can be installed from source directly using your favourite approach or framework, or from MELPA and MELPA Stable as a package.

To install typescript.el simply type M-x package-install<RET>typescript-mode<RET>.

To customize typescript.el just type the following: M-x customize-group<RET>typescript<RET>.

You can add any other customization you like to typescript-mode-hook in your init.el file. typescript.el also handles prog-mode-hook on versions of Emacs which supports it.

This mode automatically adds support for compilation-mode so that if you run M-x compile<ret>tsc<ret> the error messages are correctly parsed.

However, the error messages produced by tsc when its pretty flag is turned on include ANSI color escapes, which by default compilation-mode does not interpret. In order to get the escapes parsed, you can use:

(require 'ansi-color)
(defun colorize-compilation-buffer ()
  (ansi-color-apply-on-region compilation-filter-start (point-max)))
(add-hook 'compilation-filter-hook 'colorize-compilation-buffer)

Or, if you prefer, you can configure tsc with the pretty flag set to false: tsc --pretty false. However, doing this does more than just turning off the colors. It also causes tsc to produce less elaborate error messages.

To run the tests you can run make test.

If you prefer, you may run the tests via the provided Dockerfile.

docker build -t typescript-mode .
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/typescript-mode typescript-mode

While typescript.el may not provide a full kitchen-sink, the good news is that there's other packages which do!

More advanced features can be provided by using these additional packages:

• lsp-mode - A standards-based code-completion and refactoring backend, based on the Language Server Protocol (LSP).

• tide - TypeScript Interactive Development Environment for Emacs

• ts-comint - a Typescript REPL in Emacs.

Initializing these with typescript.el will then become a matter of creating your own typescript-mode-hook in your init.el file.