jsx-demo not working

[KoenT-X]

I am trying to find out how to setup a simple Visual Studio 2015 project using TypeScript and React, so that I can just build and run from VS, but I can't seem to find any simple example of this...

So, I then tried to build and run the jsx-demo in this repository, following the instructions in the README.md file, and that didn't work either...

Step 1: npm install
This works but gives 2 warnings:
npm WARN package.json jsx-demo@0.0.1 license should be a valid SPDX license expression
WARN engine joi-assert@0.0.3: wanted: {"node":">= 0.10.0 <= 0.11.0"} (current: {"node":"4.2.4","npm":"2.14.12"})

Step 2: node node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc
This gives the following error:
src/app.tsx(19,11): error TS2339: Property 'render' does not exist on type 'typeof __React'.

Side note: if you could (please!) create a very simple Visual Studio 2015 (CE) project using TypeScript and React, that builds and runs out-of-the-box, that would be very helpful! Right now, I find it too difficult to get started quickly.

[KoenT-X]

If getting this to work out-of-the-box with Visual Studio 2015 (CE) is not possible, then adding some setup instructions for getting it to work with Visual Studio Code could also be helpful.

But I assume Visual Studio 2015 (CE) is more powerful than Visual Studio Code, and building, launching a browser and debugging the client should be as simple as what I'm doing now with a pure HTML + TypeScript project type?

Just a minimal example (not even using jquery) would be helpful.
This is the one I tried to make before coming here (but couldn't get it to work):
https://KoenT_IM@bitbucket.org/KoenT_IM/typescriptreacttests.git

Thanks for creating TypeScript and supporting React / TSX. It looks great!

[DanielRosenwasser]

@johnnyreilly if you've got a bit of time to take a look at this as well, that'd be appreciated.

[johnnyreilly]

Hi @DanielRosenwasser,

Judging by this it sounds like Visual Studio won't be a good place to use React until better tsconfig.json is available. I think this may happen with TypeScript 1.8 - hopefully @paulvanbrenk can confirm. Once that support is available I'll try and make this example a little clearer on how to use in multiple editors / IDEs. I'm fairly passionate about there being a level playing field between editors / IDEs so this is close to my heart.

[johnnyreilly]

Oh and compileOnSave support being added. I think I saw mention that waas in the pipeline too.

Not certain what the story is with using watch support in Visual Studio though.

[KoenT-X]

@johnnyreilly Good to hear this is going to be tackled! Any idea when that would be?
Having a minimal TypeScript + React example in VS2015 to start from would help a lot to get going. I'd love to continue to work with VS2015 (CE) also for the client, it's a great IDE!

[johnnyreilly]

I'm planning to do it when TypeScript 1.8 ships (with associated changes for VS). I'm not sure when that will be though. Soon I hope!

[KoenT-X]

OK, thanks. Looking forward to that.

[KoenT-X]

In the meantime, I got a basic example working (not the jsx example from TypeScriptSamples though).

It's using the currently latest stable version of React (0.14.6, so where react and react-dom are split off), the AMD module loading system (using require.js), and VisualStudio 2015 CE. I started from the "HTML Application with TypeScript" project template in Visual Studio.
Repository on GitHub: https://bitbucket.org/KoenT_IM/typescriptreacttests

Can probably be made better still, but at least I've now got a working starting point.

Maybe this is useful for @johnnyreilly @DanielRosenwasser or @RyanCavanaugh as a starting point.