[FEATURE REQUEST] Please supply a minified version with only transpilation functionality

[quantuminformation]

Please supply a minified version (inc npm). Please also let this be a new js file with only parts needed for transpilation.

This will aid our in-browser usages.

thanks

[HerringtonDarkholme]

@guybedford @frankwallis You guys may be interested in this.

One prominent example is Angular2's demo page. In browser TypeScript compiler is really large...

[aluanhaddad]

@HerringtonDarkholme Thanks for drawing attention to this

I've been using SystemJS with plugin-typescript for development for quite a while now. One of the really nice aspects of this workflow is the degree to which it simplifies the tool chain.

1. No need to have a watch process trigger a browser reload when JavaScript is emitted.
2. Makes it easy to work with mixed JavaScript and TypeScript projects.
3. Easy to bundle when you want to deploy because you don't need to duplicate configuration.

I'm using VSCode with the tslint plugin and all I need to do is start lite-server.

The only issue is the speed of compilation so anything that would make that faster would be very much appreciated. (Note I set typescriptOptions.typeCheck: false in jspm.config.js because I look at errors + linter warnings in VSCode)

[HerringtonDarkholme]

Here is my hacky workaround for this. It produces a transpiler-only version of tsc, with clousure compiler compressed. About 474kb ungzipped.

https://github.com/HerringtonDarkholme/TypeScript/tree/transpiler

[mhegazy]

PRs are welcomed for minifing the services file and creating a new transpile target.

[mhegazy]

i would say we should split the transpileModule/transpile to their own file, and add a new build target.