dnt VS esno

We are going to use dnt - Deno to Node Transform tool to build the npm package.

As already mentioned dnt might help you if you are willing to have deno as your primary development environment. I work in a project like this and the deno tooling is great. I don't even need a package.json since dnt will generate it for me.

Build it in Deno and then use dnt to create an npm package. That way you support both JS runtimes: https://github.com/denoland/dnt

Specifically, make my codebase be for Deno, use Deno built-in formatter, linter and testing, and use dnt (Deno to Node Transform) to generate an npm package containing ESM code and to test generated code. For testing in the browser, deploy the test content linked to the generated ESM code to Github Pages and use playwright/test. For Cloudflare Workers, use wrangler to set up a worker locally for testing. A schematic diagram is shown below.

I ended up building the library with Deno and compiling to Node.js CJS and ESM using https://github.com/denoland/dnt

Yes, TS code is compiled to run in browsers. You can compile and bundle using `deno bundle` if your project is developed in Deno. Since I'm using Deno for library development, I use the `dnt`[1] tool to compile them into ESM modules later consumed by esbuild in my Node-based projects/toolchains.

[1] https://github.com/denoland/dnt

Maybe this could help? https://github.com/denoland/dnt

Love this project, used it quite a bit. However I always opt for using esno[1] instead, merely because of the name; having two tools share the same name throws me off.

[1] https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno

Next, I thought well nx is not gonna work for now, so let's keep looking for an alternative to ts-node. Oh look, there is this https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx. It natively understands path aliases, no need for any flags. Oh wait...it doesn't do any type checking like ts-node. WHAT? why would anyone execute typescript without type checks during development?.

I’ve generally found tsx to be better/less hassle than ts-node

https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx

For just running Typescript files you have (both for dev and prod) https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx with command is generally easier then using ts-node + some file watcher or compiling to js

Just use tsx: https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx

I've been using tsx, which is like ts-node except it uses esbuild under the hood. It's been pretty great. Super speedy.

And compared to esno?

Typescript with TSX for development

Take a look at Typescript runners like ts-node or esno (https://github.com/antfu/esno)