[WIP] Set up transition to TypeScript

.gitignore

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 .idea
+.meteor
 .npm
+node_modules
 packages/*
-smart.lock
-versions.json
 
 docs/client/data
 

.travis.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ before_install:
 # Later stuff for Meteor 1.4: see https://github.com/arunoda/travis-ci-meteor-packages/pull/45
 # Make sure this matches what is in package.json.
 env:
-  - CXX=g++-4.8 METEOR_RELEASE=1.4.4.6
+  # barbatus:typescript requires ecmascript and modules from 1.6.x, so we just
+  # use that to run the test
+  - CXX=g++-4.8 METEOR_RELEASE=1.6.1.4
 addons:
   apt:
     sources:

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
+  "files.exclude": {
+    "**/.npm": true, // this excludes all folders from the explore tree
+    "**/node_modules": true,
+    "packages": true // this excludes the folder only from the root
+  }
+}

Contributing.md

@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 ## Code
 
-This repo is written in ES6 with a `.prettierrc` to auto-format code.
+This repo is written in ES6/TypeScript with a `.prettierrc` to auto-format code.
 
 Initial parts of this codebase were written in Coffeescript. However, ES6
 implements many useful functions from Coffeescript while allowing more people to
-read the code and contribute. We [decaffeinated] the repo and in the future may
-convert fully to TypeScript.
+read the code and contribute. We [decaffeinated] the repo then converted to TypeScript.
 
 [decaffeinated]: https://github.com/TurkServer/turkserver-meteor/pull/99
 
+## Development
+
+`yarn install` will grab `@types/meteor` for developing the package.
+
 TODO: set up format or lint hooks with something like AirBnb's [Javascript style
 guide](https://github.com/airbnb/javascript).