Some TypeScript tricks
Pacharapol Withayasakpunt
Posted on April 23, 2020
This might not be something so special, but I bet not everyone knows.
Running *.ts files directly
Use ts-node instead of node, and ts-node-dev instead of nodemon.
Cannot run ts-node due to import syntaxes? No problemo, try this
ts-node -O '{"module": "commonjs"}' scripts/example.ts
I do not recommend you use ts-node in production.
tsconfig.json, linting, declaration map and more
You should create tsconfig.json with tsc --init.
After that, you should see
{
"compilerOptions": {
/* Basic Options */
// "incremental": true, /* Enable incremental compilation */
"target": "es5", /* Specify ECMAScript target version: 'ES3' (default), 'ES5', 'ES2015', 'ES2016', 'ES2017', 'ES2018', 'ES2019' or 'ESNEXT'. */
"module": "commonjs", /* Specify module code generation: 'none', 'commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'umd', 'es2015', or 'ESNext'. */
// "lib": [], /* Specify library files to be included in the compilation. */
// "allowJs": true, /* Allow javascript files to be compiled. */
// "checkJs": true, /* Report errors in .js files. */
// "jsx": "preserve", /* Specify JSX code generation: 'preserve', 'react-native', or 'react'. */
// "declaration": true, /* Generates corresponding '.d.ts' file. */
// "declarationMap": true, /* Generates a sourcemap for each corresponding '.d.ts' file. */
// "sourceMap": true, /* Generates corresponding '.map' file. */
// "outFile": "./", /* Concatenate and emit output to single file. */
// "outDir": "./", /* Redirect output structure to the directory. */
// "rootDir": "./", /* Specify the root directory of input files. Use to control the output directory structure with --outDir. */
// "composite": true, /* Enable project compilation */
// "tsBuildInfoFile": "./", /* Specify file to store incremental compilation information */
// "removeComments": true, /* Do not emit comments to output. */
// "noEmit": true, /* Do not emit outputs. */
// "importHelpers": true, /* Import emit helpers from 'tslib'. */
// "downlevelIteration": true, /* Provide full support for iterables in 'for-of', spread, and destructuring when targeting 'ES5' or 'ES3'. */
// "isolatedModules": true, /* Transpile each file as a separate module (similar to 'ts.transpileModule'). */
/* Strict Type-Checking Options */
"strict": true, /* Enable all strict type-checking options. */
// "noImplicitAny": true, /* Raise error on expressions and declarations with an implied 'any' type. */
// "strictNullChecks": true, /* Enable strict null checks. */
// "strictFunctionTypes": true, /* Enable strict checking of function types. */
// "strictBindCallApply": true, /* Enable strict 'bind', 'call', and 'apply' methods on functions. */
// "strictPropertyInitialization": true, /* Enable strict checking of property initialization in classes. */
// "noImplicitThis": true, /* Raise error on 'this' expressions with an implied 'any' type. */
// "alwaysStrict": true, /* Parse in strict mode and emit "use strict" for each source file. */
/* Additional Checks */
// "noUnusedLocals": true, /* Report errors on unused locals. */
// "noUnusedParameters": true, /* Report errors on unused parameters. */
// "noImplicitReturns": true, /* Report error when not all code paths in function return a value. */
// "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true, /* Report errors for fallthrough cases in switch statement. */
/* Module Resolution Options */
// "moduleResolution": "node", /* Specify module resolution strategy: 'node' (Node.js) or 'classic' (TypeScript pre-1.6). */
// "baseUrl": "./", /* Base directory to resolve non-absolute module names. */
// "paths": {}, /* A series of entries which re-map imports to lookup locations relative to the 'baseUrl'. */
// "rootDirs": [], /* List of root folders whose combined content represents the structure of the project at runtime. */
// "typeRoots": [], /* List of folders to include type definitions from. */
// "types": [], /* Type declaration files to be included in compilation. */
// "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true, /* Allow default imports from modules with no default export. This does not affect code emit, just typechecking. */
"esModuleInterop": true, /* Enables emit interoperability between CommonJS and ES Modules via creation of namespace objects for all imports. Implies 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports'. */
// "preserveSymlinks": true, /* Do not resolve the real path of symlinks. */
// "allowUmdGlobalAccess": true, /* Allow accessing UMD globals from modules. */
/* Source Map Options */
// "sourceRoot": "", /* Specify the location where debugger should locate TypeScript files instead of source locations. */
// "mapRoot": "", /* Specify the location where debugger should locate map files instead of generated locations. */
// "inlineSourceMap": true, /* Emit a single file with source maps instead of having a separate file. */
// "inlineSources": true, /* Emit the source alongside the sourcemaps within a single file; requires '--inlineSourceMap' or '--sourceMap' to be set. */
/* Experimental Options */
// "experimentalDecorators": true, /* Enables experimental support for ES7 decorators. */
// "emitDecoratorMetadata": true, /* Enables experimental support for emitting type metadata for decorators. */
/* Advanced Options */
"forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true /* Disallow inconsistently-cased references to the same file. */
}
}
Different settings are for Web browsers and Node.js
For web browsers,
{
"compilerOptions": {
"target": "es5",
"module": "esnext",
"declaration": true, /* Generates corresponding '.d.ts' file. */
"declarationMap": true, /* Generates a sourcemap for each corresponding '.d.ts' file. */
"sourceMap": true, /* Generates corresponding '.map' file. */
"outDir": "./dist",
"rootDir": "./src"
}
}
For Node.js,
{
"compilerOptions": {
"target": "esnext",
"module": "commonjs",
"declaration": true, /* Generates corresponding '.d.ts' file. */
"declarationMap": true, /* Generates a sourcemap for each corresponding '.d.ts' file. */
"sourceMap": true, /* Generates corresponding '.map' file. */
"outDir": "./lib",
"rootDir": "./src"
}
}
For linting,
- Some ESLint rules are quite problematic. You should use
tsconfig.json's instead.
// .eslintrc.js
{
rules: {
'no-unused-vars': 0,
'no-useless-constructor': 0
}
}
// tsconfig.json
{
"compilerOptions": {
/* Strict Type-Checking Options */
"strict": true, /* Enable all strict type-checking options. */
"noImplicitAny": true, /* Raise error on expressions and declarations with an implied 'any' type. */
"strictNullChecks": true, /* Enable strict null checks. */
"strictFunctionTypes": true, /* Enable strict checking of function types. */
"strictBindCallApply": true, /* Enable strict 'bind', 'call', and 'apply' methods on functions. */
"strictPropertyInitialization": true, /* Enable strict checking of property initialization in classes. */
"noImplicitThis": true, /* Raise error on 'this' expressions with an implied 'any' type. */
"alwaysStrict": true, /* Parse in strict mode and emit "use strict" for each source file. */
/* Additional Checks */
"noUnusedLocals": true, /* Report errors on unused locals. */
"noUnusedParameters": true, /* Report errors on unused parameters. */
"noImplicitReturns": true, /* Report error when not all code paths in function return a value. */
"noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true, /* Report errors for fallthrough cases in switch statement. */
/* Advanced Options */
"forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true /* Disallow inconsistently-cased references to the same file. */
}
}
BTW, I currently recommend this .eslintignore.
*.*
!*.ts
!*.js
!*.tsx
!*.jsx
!*.vue
node_modules
dist
Compiling TypeScript to JavaScript
Other than using Rollup, Webpack, Parcel or something else, you can also just run,
tsc
For web browsers, if you enable "module": "esnext" in tsconfig.json, you can relative import as well, using <script type="module">, although you will need to go extra mile, as this is not Babel.
Or, just use Snowpack.
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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt
Posted on April 23, 2020
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