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ts-blank-space is a fast type-stripping compiler
A small, fast, pure JavaScript type-stripper that uses the official TypeScript parser.
If you use the classic TypeScript ( tsc) compiler today without customizing any options, you'll see your source code undergo significant transformations. It is also worth calling out the impressive speed of sucrase, which is also written in JavaScript and is only marginally slower even though it supports additional syntax. Debuggers require sourcemaps to be loaded and processed before app startup in order to reliably set breakpoints in terms of generated coordinates ahead of first execution.
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