New User- Typescript or Javascript

Cocos Creator
#1

What’s the best/recommended scripting language to use with Cocos; Typescript or Javascript?

What are the main differences? (I’m looking for the easiest/fastest to implement.) or does mixing them up have some benefit?

I noticed that with Javascript there are some discrepancies in tutorials; for example the following function declarations both can be used

eg:
onLoad () {},
//or
onLoad:function(){},

…and so sometimes it all seems like guesswork which one to use (different ways to write the same thing). Is typescript any more consistent?

Thanks

#2

We are moving towards TypeScript over JavaScript.

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#3

Thanks. The only only problem here is that all tutorials seem to be in JS and when I try to use code from a Typescript tutorial site (https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/basic-types.html) VSCode doesn’t like it .
For example, declaring an array like:

@property
myArray: number[] = [1, 2, 3];

…doesn’t seem to appear in the editor properties.

#4

Try:

@property({ type: [cc.Integer] })
myArray: Array<number> = [1,2,3];
#5

Wow, When will official docs include typescript snippets code as well?

#6

Indeed they will. Getting updated for Creator 3

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#7

The thing I find most daunting about Cocos (when moving from Unity) is that I can’t simply highlight a command in the IDE and hit F1 to see an example of how its used. Something like that would be amazing in C3.
At the moment it seems quite a bit of effort to have to find help the online api documents and that’s the thing that slows me (and probably a lot of beginners like me) down the most. Maybe Cocos would need its own integrated IDE for this though (which would be even cooler).

#8

We used to have an IDE. It’s EOLd

#9

EOLd??

It’s old?

#10

That Eclipse extension? Thank god that is dead! Use VSCode is WAAAYYYY better.

@Grimmy use TS code, the autocomplete will work better, and for the F1 / online API documentation, I agree that things could be better, but is something you can live with

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#11

EOL. End of life.

It was called Cocos Code. I still have versions if you really wanna try it but it’s not gonna work for anything productive.

#12

Gotcha. No no, I don’t want that thanks. I’ll stick to VSCode :slight_smile: Cheers

#13

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