TypeScript Boilerplate

A minimal TypeScript setup with file watching and serving. No bundling!

Disclaimer: This is a "I want to try something out right now" template, it may not fit your production needs.

Quick Start

npm install
npm start

Build System

There is no build system other than the TypeScript compiler generating ES2017 .js files. This means that only browsers that natively support modules are supported.

The only caveat is that import statements should use the .js suffix, so that the browser can make sense of them once compiled, e.g.

import { onReady } from "./onReady.js";

Watchin' and Servin'

All files in src (other than .ts or .js) are watched with chokidar-cli and rsync'd to dist when changed.

Files are served with Browsersync, serving options can be customised in bs-config.js.

Compared to the defaults: .wasm files are served with the correct MIME type, and the timeout has been massively increased.

Commands

npm run start - build, watch and serve the project
npm run build - create a fresh build, no watching or serving
npm run lint - run the linter

Other utility commands can be found in package.json