Top 8 TypeScript Watch Projects

tsx

23 7,702 9.2 TypeScript

⚡️ TypeScript Execute: Node.js enhanced to run TypeScript & ESM

Project mention: Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that works | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-21

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.

denon

3 1,094 1.8 TypeScript

👀 Monitor any changes in your Deno application and automatically restart.
SurveyJS

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Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
turbowatch

5 907 7.9 TypeScript

Extremely fast file change detector and task orchestrator for Node.js.

Project mention: [AskJS] Best tool for given monorepo | /r/javascript | 2023-12-06

https://github.com/gajus/turbowatch until an official solution comes.

hammer

9 232 3.1 TypeScript

Build Tool for Browser and Node Applications (by sinclairzx81)
instant-mocha

3 47 3.6 TypeScript

☕️ Build tests with Webpack and run with Mocha in one command
monex

1 16 5.4 TypeScript

Execute a script and restart it whenever it crashes or a watched file changes.
Deno.watchFs

1 6 0.0 TypeScript

Tracking the behavior of Deno.watchFs on different systems
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
hyperlink-middleware

1 2 0.0 TypeScript

Modify hyperlinks on the fly with middlewares

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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