Using grunt-ts reference file as workaround to typescript command line source file ordering issues

child.ts

class Child extends Parent {
}

Gruntfile.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {

    grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-ts");
    grunt.initConfig({
        ts: {
            default: {
                src: ["*.ts"],
                reference: "reference.ts",
                out: 'out.js'
            }
        }
    });
}

parent.ts

class Parent {
}

You need to manually edit the generated reference.ts to ensure that Parent comes before Child.

/// <reference path="Parent.ts" />

//grunt-start
/// <reference path="Child.ts" />
/// <reference path="someotherfile.ts" />
/// <reference path="automaticallyInserted.ts" />
//grunt-end

It is still useful because:

• its easy to the reference.ts to do ordering
• you don't have that many base classes
• for applications like angular that do a lot of dependency injection order for most of your files doesn't matter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km0DpfX5ZxM&hd=1