Add widget example

[jcardonadcdev]

It would be nice to have an advanced example that shows how to make a widget that extends _WidgetBase and _TemplatedMixin. I see some examples in github repositories, but it would be good to get an example from SitePen that demonstrates best practices.

[gavinr]

I would appreciate this too.

[davewilton]

In the meantime you will probably find this helpful
https://www.sitepen.com/blog/2017/03/29/what-typescript-can-offer-to-dojo-1-x/

[GordonSmith]

Does anyone have an example of this working?

[davewilton]

Yes see the link above, you will find it very helpful. Basically you just need to add declareDecorator to your project and enable experimental decorators in your tsconfig.

Here is a link to a very simple example

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vmtc10dc405n39e/ExampleWidget.zip?dl=0

[GordonSmith]

Thanks for the sample - I had (finally) got something similar working myself.

The current issue I am seeing is trying to "derive" a Dojo JS class from a TypeScript Dojo Class. While this is probably just a non runner, it would greatly help in a large migration we are doing?

(Between this and https://github.com/OpenNTF/dojo-webpack-plugin we finally have a modern dev environment for the legacy wen app!!!).