🧰 Simple TypeScript Starter | 2022

We talk about a lot of advanced Node.js and TypeScript concepts on the blog, particularly focused around Domain-Driven Design and large-scale enterprise application patterns. However, I received a few emails from readers that were interested in seeing what a basic TypeScript starter project looks like. So I've put together just that.

Start the project using docker

1. RUN chmod u+x start
2. RUN ./start

Running commands in docker

1. RUN chmod u+x npm
2. RUN ./npm your-command

Features

• Minimal
• TypeScript v4
• Testing with Jest
• Linting with Eslint and Prettier
• Pre-commit hooks with Husky
• VS Code debugger scripts
• Local development with Nodemon

Scripts

npm run start:dev

Starts the application in development using nodemon and ts-node to do hot reloading.

npm run start

Starts the app in production by first building the project with npm run build, and then executing the compiled JavaScript at build/index.js.

npm run build

Builds the app at build, cleaning the folder first.

npm run test

Runs the jest tests once.

npm run test:dev

Run the jest tests in watch mode, waiting for file changes.

npm run prettier-format

Format your code.

npm run prettier-watch

Format your code in watch mode, waiting for file changes.