TypeStrong
Re-evaluate `fast` functionality
The current fast and watch functionality may possibly be improved by considering integration with --isolatedModules and the native watch functionality. Perhaps not. Any thoughts are welcome.
//cc: @basarat
Known bug: .tscache files are still written to disk even in the presence of a testExecute value.
Issue: Very noisy (#191)
Watch functionality does not provide errors if given invalid values (such as a glob).
As I understand it grunt-ts actually executes tsc directly. I could be mistaken but I'm not sure that --isolatedModules actually provides any speed increase unless you're using the transpileModule TS API. I'm purely basing this off the comments here and here. Namely:
the idea is you would use this with in a normal compilation, with multiple files, to ensure you can do the compile them in isolation later, hence the "s".
Yeah, isolatedModules is mostly for error reporting about someone using things that not safe for transpilation. For fast we only give TypeScript one file ... so will not have any impact
