create-react-library VS tsdx

At first i thought that this was THE solution but looking deeper at the source code, this tool is a wrapper around a wrapper around a wrapper.... Don't get me wrong, it probably works, but it's currently using a rollup configuration that was created in 2018, the package itself has not seen any updates in 17 months and has 106 open issues. Also the owner says himself that he's not able to work that much on it anymore and suggest to use TSDX which in return hasn't been updated in several months, many open issues and extensive customization is recommended with patch-package which already in itself is a red-flag :(

create-react-library - CLI for creating reusable, modern React libraries using Rollup and create-react-app.

Using create-react-library to scaffold a React component library.

create-react-library

Just found this: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/create-react-library

tsdx - Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development

If you’re into TypeScript, I highly recommend https://tsdx.io . I’ve used it to create a package before and it’s so much easier

Thanks for the insight fellas. Aside question, I was thinking of bootstrapping the project with tsdx, but their last release was well over 2 years ago. Wondering if there are any alternative options for creating libraries?

NOTE: If your project uses TypeScript, I would suggest using tsdx instead.

Sadly, it's a bit dead. We switched to dts-cli fork, but tsup looks good too

I don't depend on the actual typescript docs much but thankfully in @types and in tons of repos there are examples of well written typescript code.

The amount of JS and TS out there is also a bit of a foot gun though so stick with heavily used/starred libs if you aren't sure.

One tool that helps a lot with developing libraries in typescript is TSDX[0] or its successor dts-cli[1] and there is a bunch of good stuff in awesesome-typescript[2].

Maybe library devving is harder?(more work?) with tyepscript but it is worth it for the end developer, especially if that end developer is you. If you aren't using your own libs then you're probably getting paid by someone else to make them or... idk.

https://github.com/jaredpalmer/tsdx

We will use a TSDX library - this tool is something similar to create-react-app, but for creating components library. It allows as to initialize a project immediately with already set up bundler, Rollup with Typescript supporting, testing with Jest, code formatter, Prettier and Storybook.

May be you need to try https://tsdx.io/

So what is the ideal way to build TypeScript libraries? I've heard that tsdx https://tsdx.io/ is quite good

There’s tsdx. But I’d recommend using Vite and storybook-vite