TypeScript Node
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typescript
Written in 2016. Tools, APIs and prices may have changed since.
Lab note What I wrote down while learning this by building with it. Short by design; the code is in pfeilbr/typescript-node-playground.
example app showing how to setup and develop a typescript based node app using the typings TypeScript Definition Manager
Initial Setup
$ npm init --force
$ typings install --ambient node
$ npm install request --save
$ typings install --ambient request
// tsc was complaining about `form-data`
$ typings install --ambient form-data
// for `Promise`, `Object.assign`, etc.
$ typings install --ambient es6-shim
// compile from .ts to .js
$ tsc
Developing
// live re-compile and re-run on changes via nodemon
$ npm run dev
// NOTE: app will be ran 2xs on every change when editing in Atom since atom-typescript will re-compile also in addition to `tsc -w` in the `dev` npm script