Clarify Typescript integration about remix HOT 8 CLOSED

Thanks for opening this issue, @nicolasrenon.

In short, our goal in Remix is to seamlessly support both JavaScript and TypeScript. If you name a file with a .ts or .tsx extension, we will treat it as TypeScript (.tsx is for TypeScript files with JSX in them). But it isn't required. You can write all your files as .js files if you don't want TypeScript.

Right now we will automatically compile any .ts and .tsx files in the app directory. In the starter-express repo, we also support .ts and .tsx files in the loaders directory, though we just use tsc to compile them directly instead of our own compiler. This will probably change in the near future.

I agree that we should update the docs with more info about this, so I'll leave this issue open to remind me to do that at some point. Hopefully this explanation helps for now! Happy to answer any questions you may still have.

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Thanks @mjackson !
Keep up the good work 👍

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@mjackson Can I work on this issue?

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@Anishpras You should ask @kentcdodds. He's the one heading up our documentation efforts. I'm not sure if he'd prefer a separate page about this or what.

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I think we should have a page under "Guides" called "TypeScript" that describes basically what @mjackson said. @Anishpras, you can go ahead and get things started if you don't mind me making edits to whatever you write :)

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@kentcdodds Okay! Will start ASAP.

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@kentcdodds I have opened a PR for the issue discussed above PR 1378.

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Thanks everyone! https://remix.run/docs/en/v1/guides/typescript

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