Microsoft’s TypeScript language is approaching its 2.2 release with an emphasis on support for React Native, Facebook’s JavaScript framework for building native mobile apps.
The upgrade has moved to a release candidate status, which is commonly the last stage before general availability, and a road map for the language has version 2.2 arriving this month.
For React Native , which enables building of native apps via Facebook’s React framework and JavaScript, TypeScript 2.2 offers a JSX emit mode, called react-native, to accommodate React Native’s loader by generating .js files. The loader expects all input to be.js files. « It also satisfies cases where you want to just leave your JSX syntax alone but get.
