Why ionic2's gulp task using main.d.ts not browser.d.ts?

davyzhang · May 3, 2016, 3:57pm

ionic-team/ionic-gulp-tasks/blob/master/browserify-typescript/index.js

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    browserify = require('browserify'),
    watchify = require('watchify'),
    tsify = require('tsify'),
    pretty = require('prettysize'),
    merge = require('lodash.merge'),
    source = require('vinyl-source-stream'),
    buffer = require('vinyl-buffer'),
    sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps'),
    uglify = require('gulp-uglify'),
    stream = require('stream');

var defaultOptions = {
  watch: false,
  src: ['./app/app.ts', './typings/index.d.ts'],
  outputPath: 'www/build/js/',
  outputFile: 'app.bundle.js',
  minify: false,
  browserifyOptions: {
    cache: {},

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Is main.d.ts supposed to be used in node project?

src: ['./app/app.ts', './typings/main.d.ts'],

mhartington · May 3, 2016, 7:22pm

So this is because the features that typings is planning are not usable yet.

This comes down to a difference between what each should be doing .

main.d.ts: for node environment
browser.d.ts: for browser

At least this is understanding.

davyzhang · May 7, 2016, 6:49am

Hi, Thanks for the clarification, I found ionic2’s gulp task is a great start point for using gulp and typescript