Roadmap

2.1

• Switch to a transformation-based emitter
• async/await and generators support for ES5/ES3
• Support for external helpers library
• Support ES8 object property spread and rest
• Support type-checking of computed properties for constants and Symbols
• Ambient decorators
• Deprecated decorator
• Conditional decorator
• Decorators for function expressions/arrow functions
• Quick fixes support in language service API
• Investigate Language Service extensibility
• Refactoring support in Language Service API
• Support for project references
• Variadic types
• Investigate nominal typing support
• Flattening declarations
• Support for node register hook

2.0

• Non-nullable types
• Control flow based type analysis
• Discriminated union types
• Improved definition file acquisition
• Specifying this types for functions
• Type guards on property access
• Readonly properties and index signatures
• Use path mappings in module resolution
• Shorthand ambient module declarations and wildcard matching in module names
• Implicit index signatures
• Support private and protected constructors
• Support abstract properties
• Optional properties in classes
• The never type
• --skipLibCheck compiler option
• Support for declaration output folder using --declarationDir
• Glob support in tsconfig.json
• Improve lib.d.ts modularity and new --lib support
• Support for UMD module definitions
• Trailing Commas in Function Param Lists
• Support for jsdoc @typedef for JS files
• Completion lists for string literals
• Module name in imports allow .js extension
• Support 'target:es5' with 'module:es6'
• Flag unused declarations with --noUnusedLocals and --noUnusedParameters
• Number, boolean, and Enum literal types

1.8

• Allow JavaScript in TypeScript compilations with --allowjs
• Allow captured let/const in loops
• Flag unreachable code
• Concatenate module output with --outFile
• Accept comments in tsconfig.json
• Stylize error messages in terminal output with --pretty
• Support for --outFile with named pipes, sockets, and special devices
• Support computed property with literal names
• String literal types
• Stateless Functional Components in JSX
• Improved union/intersection type inference
• Support for F-Bounded Polymorphism
• Support full path for -project/-p parameter
• Extract type information from JSDoc in js files
• Support for default import interop with SystemJS using --allowSyntheticDefaultImports
• Recognize prototype assignments in JavaScript files
• Augmenting global/module scope from other modules
• Use tsconfig.json as higher priority source of configuration in Visual Studio
• this-based type guards
• Support for custom JSX factories using --reactNamespace
• Improved checking of for-in statements
• Colorization of JSX code in VS 2015
• Publish official TypeScript NuGet packages

1.7

• ES7 exponentiation operator
• Polymorphic this type
• Support --module with --target es6
• Support for decorators when targeting ES3
• async/await support for ES6 (Node v4)
• Improved checking of destructuring with literal initializers

1.6

• ES6 Generators
• Local types
• Generic type aliases
• Expressions in class extends clauses
• Class expressions
• exclude property in tsconfig.json
• User defined type guard functions
• External module resolution enhancements
• JSX support
• Intersection types
• abstract classes and methods
• Strict object literal assignment checking
• Declaration merging for classes and interfaces
• New --init

1.5

• Support for Destructuring
• Support for Spread Operator
• Support for ES6 Modules
• Support for for..of
• Support for ES6 Unicode specification
• Support for Symbols
• Support for Computed properties
• Support for tsconfig.json files
• Support for let and const in ES3/ES5
• Support for tagged templates in ES3/ES5
• Expose a new editor interface through TS Server
• Support for ES7 Decorators proposal
• Support for Decorator type metadata
• New --rootDir
• New ts.transpile API
• Support --module umd
• Support --module system
• New --noEmitHelpers
• New --inlineSourceMap
• New --inlineSources
• New --newLine
• New --isolatedModules
• Support for new namespace keyword
• Support for tsconfig.json in Visual Studio 2015
• Improved template literal highlighting in Visual Studio 2013

1.4

• Support for Union Types and Type Guards
• New --noEmitOnError
• New --target ES6
• Support for Let and Const
• Support for Template Literals
• Library typings for ES6
• Support for Const enums
• Export Language Service public API

1.3

• Language service re-write to target new compiler
• Support for protected members in classes
• Support for Tuple Types