Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by majodev » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 12:02 PM UTC

Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021
metachris.com

Re: Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by nikivi » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 12:27 PM UTC

Nice article, you could also just use https://github.com/formium/tsdx

Re: Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by metachris » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 12:37 PM UTC

nikivi wrote: post #2

Nice article, you could also just use https://github.com/formium/tsdx

Author of the post here. Thanks for the link; added it to the post in the "Notes" section.

Re: Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by dagurp » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:31 PM UTC

metachris wrote: post #3

nikivi wrote: post #2

Nice article, you could also just use https://github.com/formium/tsdx

Author of the post here. Thanks for the link; added it to the post in the "Notes" section.

  npx create-react-app my-app --template typescript

is also an option

Re: Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by mark_and_sweep » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:33 PM UTC

In 2021, I think it's safe to start a TypeScript project with Deno.

Re: Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by vohvae » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

nikivi wrote: post #2

Nice article, you could also just use https://github.com/formium/tsdx

I just tried out tsdx. The node_modules folder took ~180MB of space in a fresh project. I don't know if I am doing or judging things wrong, but this seems to be way too much if someone just wants to write some hobby project exploratory code.

I am probably not the target demographic for tsdx or other bootstrap libraries in the ecosystem but I would love to have something "simple" with good defaults which I can debug if something breaks to make CLI scripts to familiarise myself with the language and ecosystem.

Currently the best option for me is to manually setup the directory structure and build commands which is not fun for mostly simple throwaway code.

golang and rust seem to have things right in this regard though rust build artifacts can get quite big.

Re: Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by christiansakai » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:43 PM UTC

mark_and_sweep wrote: post #5

In 2021, I think it's safe to start a TypeScript project with Deno.

Does Deno work for frontend?

Re: Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by meheleventyone » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:43 PM UTC

I’m curious about the value of eslint for TypeScript. I’ve not really found myself wanting from the coverage provided by tsc.

Re: Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by halfmatthalfcat » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:49 PM UTC

christiansakai wrote: post #7

mark_and_sweep wrote: post #5

In 2021, I think it's safe to start a TypeScript project with Deno.

Does Deno work for frontend?

No it's a replacement for Node.

Re: Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021

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Post by halfmatthalfcat » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:50 PM UTC

meheleventyone wrote: post #8

I’m curious about the value of eslint for TypeScript. I’ve not really found myself wanting from the coverage provided by tsc.

To be honest, I was really happy with TSLint. The amount of configuration and scaffolding around ESLint is a big turnoff from me compared to how easy it was to get TSLint going.