This is a sample project for Adobe ExtendScript script development using TypeScript and Node.js.
ExtendScript typings are sourced from Types-for-Adobe, ES5 functionality is available as well via extendscript-es5-shim (e.g. JSON.stringify and Array.prototype.map). Babel handles transpiling TypeScript to JavaScript and most of ES3 compatibility. Other Node packages can be installed and imported as well. To avoid ExtendScript's custom #include syntax, during build project is bundled into single JS file with Webpack.
Ready script can be compiled to binary with jsxbin.
For debugging ExtendScript Debugger plugin can be used – VSCode launch task is defined. Because output JS file can differ significantly from TS source due to transpilation and bundling, it's best to use $.bp() for breakpoints that persist between builds.
- install Node.js
- run
npm installto install dependencies - You're ready to go!
As a proof of working module imports, project uses fast-xml-parser which uses os module and global window object. These are shimmed just to make the library work, but are not necessary otherwise.