This was an experiment to build Ionic with Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, BabelJS, and module support.

TypeScript (.ts) and Javascript (.js) file should go in the src directory.

Additional gulp tasks are provided for building the project.

• gulp compile This task will transpile the TypeScript and ES6 code into ES5. For TypeScript, this is done by first targeting ES6 and then all of the code is then passed through babeljs and ngAnnotate. The resulting ES5 files are place in the build directory.

• gulp bundle This task will bundle all of the modules into a single bundle using system.js[1]. The resulting bundle file (bundle.js) will be placed in www/js.

1. https://github.com/systemjs/systemjs