Addons written in typescript

[juraj.masiar]

Maybe @Lusito could share some of his experiences with TypeScript add-on development.
He mentioned one of his add-ons in this topic:

TypeScript generator for the browser Polyfill

I’ve created this project for generating TypeScript files using the Mozilla JSON schema files: I’m maintaining two web-extensions using TypeScript, so my main motivation for this is to always have an up-to-date API without having to manually compare the definition files with the MDN documentation. Ideally, it would check on a daily basis for changes and notify me to build and publish a new version using just a few commands. This is not complete yet, but the resulting code looks very promis…

I’m planning to port some of my add-ons to TypeScript, @Lusito could you please share some thoughts about your experience? Maybe some pitfalls to avoid.

Also how did you started your project? Did you configured everything yourself or have you used some generator, like this one: GitHub - phryneas/generator-webext-typescript: generates a basic firefox webextension with typescript support