Fastest way to bootstrap a TS node project

TLDR

1. Create a new folder for your project (mkdir my-ts-app + cd my-ts-app)

2. Run npm init ts-node-project

3. Install dependencies with npm install (or npm i)

4. You’re ready to go! Run npm start or npm test to check that everything is working 🚀

Explanation

If you want to quickly start a typescript project using ts-node, you’ll find that you often have to create the same files over and over.

Having tools like create-react-app, npm init or eslint — init really helps to quickly get coding, but there doesn’t seem to be a conventional way to do so for ts-node.

That’s why I’ve decided to create a small npm package called create-ts-node-project that allows you to quickly bootstrap a working Typescript project that runs with ts-node.

Requirements

To get started, you only need npm installed on your machine. To download it, use the Node Version manager and follow the instructions.

When you’re done, open a terminal in the directory you want to start your project. Run the following commands:

npm init ts-node-project
npm i
npm start

Features

Your new project comes fully configured to run as a ts-node project. It also initializes a git repository and installs jest to quickly test your code.

Planned development

The package is available on Github, and on npmjs.com ;)

This package was mostly intended for personal use, but if it gets enough traction I think it might be worth it to add a few features, such as:

• Customization (project name, TS version…)

• Quick dependencies (jest, eslint…)

• Immediate dependencies installation

Let me know in the comments which of these you would like to see implemented, and whether you find this small util useful!

Thanks!

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Thanks for reading and happy coding!