Running TypeScript in Node.js without any extra tooling

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Post by niedzielski » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

Running TypeScript in Node.js without any extra tooling
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Re: Running TypeScript in Node.js without any extra tooling

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Post by niedzielski » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

I made a small template that demonstrates the new type-stripping feature in Node.js. Nothing fancy but I was surprised that I didn't need to install a TypeScript test runner and generally how nice it was.

Re: Running TypeScript in Node.js without any extra tooling

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Post by mubou » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 6:09 PM UTC

I love not needing tsnode anymore. Just wish it'd do type-checking, since without that we still need to install typescript separately. Add onto that a linter/formatter... meanwhile Deno does all of that natively. Node needs to step up its game.

Re: Running TypeScript in Node.js without any extra tooling

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Post by autocole » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 6:44 PM UTC

It seems a little silly to not support some of the small additions TypeScript contributes when it could just be another flag to enable enum, namespace, constructor to property init support

Re: Running TypeScript in Node.js without any extra tooling

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Post by niedzielski » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 7:09 PM UTC

autocole wrote: post #4

It seems a little silly to not support some of the small additions TypeScript contributes when it could just be another flag to enable enum, namespace, constructor to property init support

you can try the --experimental-transform-types flag to support TypeScript code gen. I'll add it to the notes!

--experimental-transform-types: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v22.7.0#experimental-tran...