private static async Task MainAsync()
{
//Create a new Compiler instance (it has yet to be initialized)
var compiler = new TypeScriptCompiler();
Console.WriteLine("Compiling compiler...");
//InitializeCompilerAsync() loads the compiler from a resource
//and compiles it. This is relatively resource expensive; it can
//take a few seconds to compile the TypeScript compiler and
//quite a few MB of RAM.
//Right now, NTypeScript uses JurassicJS as its engine, because
//Jurassic compiles to IL code.
//Once the compiler is compiled, the compiler can be used to compile
//TypeScript.
await compiler.InitializeCompilerAsync();
string helloWorldScript = @"
class RandomProgram {
sayHello() {
console.log(""Hello, World!"");
}
}
let myProgram = new RandomProgram();
myProgram.sayHello();
";
Console.WriteLine("Compiling Hello World script...");
//This will compile the script with the compiler that was
//compiled earlier. This isn't too resource intensive, but
//takes about the same amount of time as the normal TypeScript
//compiler running in Node.JS
var transpiledHelloWorldScript = await compiler.CompileAsync(helloWorldScript);
Console.WriteLine(transpiledHelloWorldScript);
//Run the script
var jsExecutor = new JavaScriptExecutor();
jsExecutor.EnableConsoleApi();
await jsExecutor.ExecuteAsync(transpiledHelloWorldScript);
}
