Native Typescript support

[dlespiau]

We could:

• Detect the user wants to run a .ts file
• Use https://www.npmjs.com/package/typescript to transpile it
• Run it!

[dlespiau]

We now have the stdlib described in ts and publish typings in @jkcfg/std

[geekflyer]

@dlespiau @squaremo Could you add in one of the next releases native TypeScript support, as-in automatically running .ts files through a TypeScript compiler (maybe using ts-node)?
I think it's fine to still require the user to install typescript locally or globally, but jkcfg should automatically run the compilation step instead of requiring the user to do this "out of process".
I think this would largely increase the popularity of jk.
I'm currently already using pulumi in yaml render-mode but jk could be a good lighter-weight alternative for cases where one really only wants to render yamls instead of deploying them right away.

[dlespiau]

That's something I'd really like to see soon as well :) My current goal is to finish the plugin system so we can do interesting things such as rendering a helm chart, exposing its objects in js/ts and be able to manipulate them from a jk script.

Next goal will be the ts compiler if @squaremo doesn't beat me to it. It may take some time though as this project is a spare-time project for me.

[squaremo]

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https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Using-the-Compiler-API