jakzo/ts-dev

@atlassian/ts-dev

Typescript dev loop in a box.

Quick start

Install:

npm i -D @atlassian/ts-dev
# or
yarn add -D @atlassian/ts-dev

Add a dev script to your package.json:

{
    "scripts": {
        "dev": "ts-dev ./src/main.ts"
    }
}

Run that script and it should automatically pick up your project configuration and start compiling and running.

Why use this instead of ts-node?

ts-node does not behave identically to Typescript in some situations which can lead to bugs and differences between programs running in production and development. ts-dev was created because ts-node could not run for a project I was working on. It offers a simple and fast dev loop which is closer to the production build by compiling a project in watch mode, then running the compiled Javascript files in Node, restarting on recompilation. require() can be patched to handle Typescript files by mapping them to their compiled JS files.