petercorrea/nodejs

Node.js

Exploring a few Node.js api

Installation Guide

1. Install Node.js

2. npm init

3. npm install express --save

4. npm install nodemon eslint typescript @types/node ts-node --save-dev

5. Configure eslint npx eslint --init

6. Configure TypeScript npx tsc --init

7. Configure rootDir and outDir in tsconfig.json

        "rootDir": "./src",
        "outDir": "./dist",       
   

8. Configure nodemon for TS support by creating nodemon.json

   {
       "watch": ["src"],
       "ext": "ts",
       "exec": "ts-node ./src/index.ts"
   }

9. Add the following scripts in package.json

   "scripts": {
       "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
       "dev": "nodemon src/index.ts",
       "build": "tsc",
       "start": "node dist/index.js"
   },

10. Create a file named index.ts

11. Run with npm run dev