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.
