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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._
ts-node
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TypeScript Without Transpilation
I thought this was going to be a project like ts-node [1]
[1] https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node
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Deploy a static site to AWS S3 and CloudFront using AWS CDK
The command specified in the app option uses ts-node by default, which is an execution engine for Node.js that allows you to run TypeScript code directly. The --prefer-ts-exts flag prevents ts-node from prioritizing precompiled .js files and will always import the TypeScript source code instead, if it is available. This is useful if you are also using tsc (the TypeScript compiler) alongside the app option. The bin/cdk.ts file is the entry point for our CDK app, which defines the main function that will be executed when the app is run.
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Couple super basic Typescript questions from a newbie: how to compile and how to start learning
If you want to write apps that run on Node.js I would suggest using Google’s TypeScript style guide. You can start using it by simply running npx gts init. I’d suggest that you start with this and run your apps using ts-node/ts-node-dev because it does not require an extra build step.
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Looking for a TS REPL/tinkering tool, any recommendations?
ts-node (“TypeScript execution and REPL for Node.js”)
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"SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module" trying to run Mathigon/Studio
Here is a relevant discussion and dev comment: https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node/issues/155
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An Introduction to Deno: Is It Better Than Node.js?
It does support ESM, with a --loader[1], but even with its SWC option it’s still significantly slower than the esbuild loader I’m working on. Unfortunately, esbuild isn’t totally compatible with tsc, so it’s not a drop-in replacement without plugins.
1: https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node#native-ecmascript-modu...
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How to Set Up a Node.js Project with TypeScript
The process of compiling TypeScript source files into JavaScript code before executing them with Node.js can get a little tedious after a while, especially during development. You can eliminate the intermediate steps before running the program through the ts-node CLI to execute .ts files directly. Go ahead and install the ts-node package using the command below:
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How to use execa@6 with NestJs?
I tried suggested solution by https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node/issues/1007 but this causes problem with NestJS decorators:
What are some alternatives?
esbuild-runner - ⚡️ Super-fast on-the-fly transpilation of modern JS, TypeScript and JSX using esbuild
swc-node - Faster ts-node without typecheck
ts-runtime-comparison - Comparison of Node.js TypeScript runtimes
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
esno - Alias to `tsx`
esbuild-node-tsc - Build your Typescript Node.js projects using blazing fast esbuild
swc - Rust-based platform for the Web
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
sucrase - Super-fast alternative to Babel for when you can target modern JS runtimes
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]
vike - 🔨 Like Next.js / Nuxt but as do-one-thing-do-it-well Vite plugin.