📄 template-node-js-modern

Project Template for creating Node.js apps with modern JavaScript - transpiled down to ES2015

⭐ Features

• Code in modern JavaScript
  • Transpiled down to ES2015
• Run modern JavaScript code using ts-node
• Built-in tasks using npm scripts
• Integration with Visual Studio Code
  • Settings
  • Tasks
  • Debuging
  • Extensions
    • Automatic code checking with ESLint
    • Automatic code formatting and fixing with Prettier

🛠️ Development

These instructions will get you a copy of this project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

📋 Prerequisites

• Node.js - JavaScript run-time environment
  • After installing it, use npm i in the project's root folder to install all dependencies

Visual Studio Code Extensions

This project is intended to be used with Visual Studio Code and the following extensions are recommended:

• ESLint - Integrates ESLint JavaScript into VS Code
• Prettier - Code formatter using prettier

🚀 Getting Started

This project uses npm scripts for running tasks:

# lint the project using eslint
npm run lint

# remove the generated folder
npm run clean

# build the project
# (includes clean and lint)
npm run build

# build the project without linting
# (includes clean)
npm run build-only

# run modern JavaScript code using ts-node
npm run start:js
# or just
npm start

# run generated JavaScript code using node
# (does NOT include build)
npm run start:js-transpiled

# publish the project
# (includes build)
npm publish

VS Code tasks are also included for lint, build, build-only, start:js and start:js-transpiled.

🧰 Built With

📚 Resources

• .eslintrc.js from create-exposed-app

🏛️ Libraries

• TypeScript - A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript
• ESLint - Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code
• ts-node - TypeScript execution and REPL for node.js

👨‍💻 Authors

• Robin Hartmann - robin-hartmann

📃 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.