This is a fork of the original repository which contains a TypeScript starter for Google Cloud Functions.
I've added here some lacking and development dependencies and rewritten npm scripts to add some useful stuff.
You can start the function locally using functions-framework with a single npm run start command.
In the same way as above, you can start the function locally in a watch mode using npm run watch. This command concurrently starts tsc --watch and functions-framework with npm-watch. This way any modifications to the index.ts file are immediately visible after refreshing a browser. tsc currently generates map files for all generated .js so you can even use this feature to debug the function in a live mode. This can be done using running npm run watch in a debug mode from an IDE (WebStorm, Idea, etc).
Function can be deployed using gcloud command with npm run deploy.