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23 | 10 | |
7,569 | 1,529 | |
6.9% | 2.0% | |
9.1 | 4.9 | |
6 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
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tsx
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Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that works
I really enjoy frontend/node/typescript development. I roll my eyes whenever the HN-types complain about CSS or frontend development being a hellhole. Mostly the comments I see seem ignorant or impatient ("Why doesn't this thing work without be bothering to learn it?")
However, the intersection of typescript, nodejs, and ES modules is consistently the most frustrating experience I ever have. Trying to figure out which magic incantation of tsconfig/esbuild/tsc/node options will let me just write code and run it is a fools errand. You might figure something out, and then you try to use Jest and then you descend into madness again.
The biggest tip I can give people is to ditch ts-node and just use (the awkwardly named) tsx https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx, which pretty much just "mostly works" for running Typescript during dev for node.
The problem mostly seems to stem for all the stakeholders being pretty dogmatic to whatever their goals are, rather than the pragmatic option of just meeting people where they are. I really wish the Node, Typescript, Deno/Bun, and maybe some bundler people would come together and figure out how to make this easier for people.
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ERDIA: TypeORM entity specification documentation tool
If your TypeORM entity is written in TypeScript, you have to run ERDIA using ts-node or tsx as follows.
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xtsz - a TS / JS file runner with support for HTTP/S imports
Want to import a package / file conveniently from esm.sh or unpkg or directly from a GitHub repo for a one-off script (for example). To do this I created a custom ESBuild plugin to handle HTTP imports - that worked for ,js files. To support running both ESM and CJS, I use tsx.
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What is your must have npm package on any given project?
I prefer tsx honestly. Nodemon will detect that your using TypeScript and switch from node to ts-node but tsx is a no config necessary version of ts-node that also runs faster. Of course you can configure ts-node to use swc to be faster but then you're playing with config files to get things working.
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Question about debugging TypeScript
I highly recommend you give this a shot over ts-node
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Jsx as a general templating language?
Dude I just worked on a PoC a few hours ago. What I did was use ReactDOM's renderToStaticMarkup and tsx to execute the script so I get jsx transpilation on the fly.
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Thoughts about Deno?
I’ve been trying to adopt Deno into new projects, but I find Node through tsx good enough.
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Will nodeJs ever have out of the box typescript support?
try tsx. it has support for watch mode and works great with esm module projects.
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Why is this so hard to do? Help
This is the answer: https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx
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<3 Deno
Have a look at https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx
_tsx is a CLI command (alternative to node) for seamlessly running TypeScript & ESM, in both commonjs & module package types.
It's powered by esbuild so it's insanely fast._
esno
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Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that works
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.
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The esm/cjs situation...
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?.
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Svelte is migrating from TypeScript to JSDoc
I’ve generally found tsx to be better/less hassle than ts-node
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TypeScript tooling and ecosystem
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
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Usage TypeScript?
Just use tsx: https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx
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PSA: Speed up your ts-node command with a simple --swc flag
I've been using tsx, which is like ts-node except it uses esbuild under the hood. It's been pretty great. Super speedy.
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tsx: Node.js enhanced with esbuild to run TypeScript & ESM
And compared to esno?
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Typescript or JS with Node.js ?
Typescript with TSX for development
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Unable to run ‘.ts’ - ESM modules and CommonJS
Take a look at Typescript runners like ts-node or esno (https://github.com/antfu/esno)
What are some alternatives?
esbuild-runner - ⚡️ Super-fast on-the-fly transpilation of modern JS, TypeScript and JSX using esbuild
esbuild-node-tsc - Build your Typescript Node.js projects using blazing fast esbuild
ts-node - TypeScript execution and REPL for node.js
electron-svelte-typescript-esbuild-template - Starter kit to build cross-platform desktop apps with Electron, Svelte, TypeScript and Esbuild.
ts-runtime-comparison - Comparison of Node.js TypeScript runtimes
esbuild-svelte - An esbuild plugin to compile Svelte components
TS-ESNode - Node.JS Loader hook to transform typescript source and files as node loads them TS-ESNode. TS-Node for ESNext & ESModule Node.JS.
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
turborepo - Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turborepo and Turbopack. [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/turbo]
ThinkJS - Use full ES2015+ features to develop Node.js applications, Support TypeScript.