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Thanks @anwalkers for submitting this! It's definitely great to keep the templates on an up-to-date technology stack.

A while ago in #53, @MarkPieszak and I were planning to update to Typings, but decided to put it on hold when the TypeScript team announced that with TypeScript v2.0, they would have native support for acquiring .d.ts files from NPM, so it will no longer be necessary to use either TSD or Typings for this in the templates.

I don't know how soon TypeScript 2.0 is going to ship, but I'm guessing it must be pretty much imminent - the beta has been out for a long time, and the roadmap planning has already moved on to 2.1.

Given the likelihood of a TS 2.0 release soon, and that we'll update to use its native support for acquiring .d.ts files at that time, would you agree it might be better to minimise the amount of churn by sticking with tsd until then? I don't think it will be hugely beneficial to encourage a change to this for what might be just a few days or weeks - any time spent tracking down new issues or incompatibilities would be obsolete very soon, and could better be spent enhancing other features.

What do you think? Would it be OK to wait until TS 2.0 ships? Obviously for your own project you've already put in Typings support so it isn't going to affect you, but I suspect that for others, having a simpler story about moving to native TS 2.0 support when available could be a preferable arrangement.

@SteveSandersonMS So I just updated the Universal project to use the new @types, but it's up to you whether you think we should wait for the official release or use typescript@beta and start using it already. It's definitely really nice to just have the package.json contain everything now, love 2.0 so far! Nice job by the TS team :)

Sounds good.