Running TypeScript in Node.js without any extra tooling

https://github.com/niedzielski/node-ts-template

by niedzielski • 1 year ago

2 4 1 year ago

I made a small template that demonstrates the new type-stripping feature in Node.js. Nothing fancy but I was surprised that I didn't need to install a TypeScript test runner and generally how nice it was.

mubou• 1 year ago

I love not needing tsnode anymore. Just wish it'd do type-checking, since without that we still need to install typescript separately. Add onto that a linter/formatter... meanwhile Deno does all of that natively. Node needs to step up its game.

autocole• 1 year ago

It seems a little silly to not support some of the small additions TypeScript contributes when it could just be another flag to enable enum, namespace, constructor to property init support

niedzielski2• 1 year ago

you can try the --experimental-transform-types flag to support TypeScript code gen. I'll add it to the notes!

--experimental-transform-types: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v22.7.0#experimental-tran...

Running TypeScript in Node.js without any extra tooling

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