Add TypeScript plugin

[xiaoxiangmoe]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We may need use new/experiment TypeScript version such as microsoft/TypeScript#33038 (comment) . Also we may need to use decorator. So we should support use tsc as compiler.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add a plugin to use tsc rather than esbuild

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[Akiyamka]

Using tsc in Vite doesn't make sense, the whole point is to throw it away.

Vite only performs transpilation on .ts files and does NOT perform type checking. It assumes type checking is taken care of by your IDE and build process (you can run tsc --noEmit in the build script).

Vite uses esbuild to transpile TypeScript into JavaScript which is about 20~30x faster than vanilla tsc, and HMR updates can reflect in the browser in under 50ms.

Note that because esbuild only performs transpilation without type information, it doesn't support certain features like const enum and implicit type-only imports. You must set "isolatedModules": true in your tsconfig.json under compilerOptions so that TS will warn you against the features that do not work with isolated transpilation.

[xiaoxiangmoe]

I want to use tsc to transpile TypeScript without type checking. This proposal using tsc only for new syntax, for example: nominal unique type brands .

I'm using tsc with noEmit to type check .

[yyx990803]

There is plan for esbuild to support decorators: evanw/esbuild#104 (comment)

If you really need it you can write your own plugin.

[utenma]

would be nice to use tsc, this enables to specify options like JSX factory injection in the tsconfig.json

for example using emotion.js in react the tsconfig.json requires:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "jsx": "react-jsx",
    "jsxImportSource": "@emotion/react",
  }
}