A standalone type-annotation strip transform (not depending on React or JSX transform)

[fkling]

I already started building this, just opened this for tracking.

Currently blocked on benjamn/ast-types/pull/77

[gabelevi]

Ooh, cool! Are you building on recast or completely stand alone?

Internally we do have a recast type-stripping transform, though it needs a little bit of love after I revamped esprima-fb's type parsing. If that's what you need I might be able to clean it up and open source it.

[fkling]

Yeah, I based it on recast. Didn't know we have this internally, that makes things easier ;) I'd be happy to help out if necessary.

[fkling]

So, I actually went ahead and created a standalone, recast-based transform: https://github.com/fkling/flow-typestrip (because I was almost done anyway). I'm ready to publish it on npm if everything looks right to you guys legally (i.e. name, license, etc).

[fkling]

I published it to npm now, I hope that's OK. Since there is only partial support until the ast-types issue is resolved, I don't think it makes sense to advertise it (yet).

[fkling]

I guess we can close this now. Tool is available through npm install flow-typestrip.