Include TypeScript stack (cds-routing-handlers)

[hakimio]

It would be nice if there was also TypeScript example using cds-routing-handlers. I imagine it should be a bit similar to the Java one.

[tsteckenborn]

With TypeScript support not being officially there yet, I guess that‘s nothing for the SAP-samples. Also SAP might go in a different direction compared to cds-routing-handlers, see the cap-samples repository. In there you might find a quick look at something called cds-ts, which is not yet released to us, the public.

Let‘s see what this months release will bring to us 😉

[hakimio]

@tsteckenborn can you link the repository?

[tsteckenborn]

@hakimio: You might start here SAP-samples/cloud-cap-samples#245.

Yet that's still in the very early stages. Using TypeScript I sometimes also encountered Types with Typos or deviating from the documentation (fields marked as mandatory which aren't).

Anyways there's been quite some improvement over time.So they seem to be on it, yet it's difficult to evaluate how far it is.

[hakimio]

Any documentation or other examples for cds-ts? The linked PR looks like it only contains "hello world" code.

[tsteckenborn]

That‘s right. To my knowledge, no. As I said it‘s not even released to public yet. Therefor I guess that the request to include a TypeScript sample with cds-routing-handlers will not be fulfilled.

Edit: Let‘s see what the repo maintainers say. Maybe they are going to do it. Would be great to see more TypeScript exposure.

[hakimio]

News about cds-ts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5TVj6YDC1c&t=53s
https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/get-started/using-typescript#cds-ts

Anyway, it's not a replacement for cds-routing-handlers or cds2types. It's just node-ts intergration.

[iwonahahn]

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