Babel

First install Babelify and the Babel preset for ES2015. Like Uglify, Babelify mangles code, so we’ll need vinyl-buffer and gulp-sourcemaps. By default Babelify will only process files with extensions of .js, .es, .es6 and .jsx so we need to add the .ts extension as an option to Babelify.

npm install --save-dev babelify babel-preset-es2015 vinyl-buffer gulp-sourcemaps

Now change your gulpfile to the following:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var browserify = require('browserify');
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');
var tsify = require('tsify');
var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
var buffer = require('vinyl-buffer');
var paths = {
  pages: ['src/*.html']
};

gulp.task('copyHtml', function () {
  return gulp.src(paths.pages)
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});

gulp.task('default', ['copyHtml'], function () {
  return browserify({
    basedir: '.',
    debug: true,
    entries: ['src/main.ts'],
    cache: {},
    packageCache: {}
  })
  .plugin(tsify)
  .transform('babelify', {
    presets: ['es2015'],
    extensions: ['.ts']
  })
  .bundle()
  .pipe(source('bundle.js'))
  .pipe(buffer())
  .pipe(sourcemaps.init({loadMaps: true}))
  .pipe(sourcemaps.write('./'))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});

We also need to have TypeScript target ES2015. Babel will then produce ES5 from the ES2015 code that TypeScript emits. Let’s modify tsconfig.json:

{
  "files": [
    "src/main.ts"
  ],
  "compilerOptions": {
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "target": "es2015"
  }
}

Babel’s ES5 output should be very similar to TypeScript’s output for such a simple script.

Links:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/gulp.html#babel

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2025-01-10 15:47:30

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