Re: Non-bootstrappable NPM packages

[Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>]

On 2019-07-24 15:41, Jelle Licht wrote:

> Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
>> I’ve come to think that bootstrapping JavaScript might be easier than it
>> looks.  As time goes on, Node gets better at the newer JavaScript
>> features.  This removes the need for things like Babel or Rollup, since
>> with some care, Node can run the source directly with out any
>> transformations or bundling.  That being said, TypeScript looks to be a
>> major issue, as it is used in many fundamental JavaScript packages and
>> it is not bootstrappable.
>
> Very recently (IE about 94 minutes ago), I found out something
> interesting that might be helpful; Sucrase[0] is, among other things, a
> typescript transpiler that does not do any type checking, and it only
> has some runtime dependencies.
>
> I created some “fiio”-packages as well [1] , and I have confirmed that
> it actually works! My next step was of course to compile TypeScript
> proper, and this worked with one tiny snag that I reported at [2]. After
> manually fixing these problems in the TypeScript source tree, I was able
> to transpile the TypeScript sources using guix-packaged
> `node-sucrase-bootstrap'.

Hi Jelle!

Did someone made some progress on the build-system since that to allow
for this to be taken into account? If you still have it, could you share
your "fiio" packages once again? The paste link is expired. Thanks!

>
>> I’m not sure in what capacity I want to pursue this.  It’s been sitting
>> dormant on my computer for while, so I thought sharing it would be
>> better than letting it fall by the wayside.  I hope it proves useful one
>> way or another.
>>
>> If you got this far, thanks for reading!  :)
> Thank you for sending this informative email :)
>>
>>
>> -- Tim
>
> [0]: https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase
> [1]: https://paste.debian.net/1092893/
> [2]: https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase/issues/464

-- 
Best regards,
Nicolas Graves