Release 1.3.0

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TypeScript

1.3 introduces support for TypeScript within Build Tools with the aims of creating an easy to use implementation that requires as little configuration as possible to keep a consistent approach to projects that are written in TypeScript and are compiled using Build Tools.

TypeScript Default Config and Rules

The aim for bundling the config was to provide a sane setup for each developer that is working within TypeScript that will also provide consistency across all projects that utilise it.

The configuration for TypeScript can be found in the configs/tsconfig.json file.

There are also some image definition types that can be found in the configs/tsconfig/images.d.ts file.

An addition of TypeScript ESLint has also been included to ensure that we've support for ESLint within our builds.

Project tsconfig.json

As part of the aim is to provide a bundled configuration file, the tsconfig.json is defined within the project and can be found amongs other related configuration files within the /configs directory. The config file aims to provide a sane standard as recommended in the issue comment here.

To ensure the config file is visible by IDEs and any other related software for error and syntax highlighting, you need to define and extend the tsconfig.json within the root of your project.

{
  "extends": "@bigbite/build-tools/configs/tsconfig"
}

Customising tsconfig.json

There are a number of situations where you may need to customise or extend the tsconfig.json. This can be easily achieved by utilising the extends property and pointing to the build-tools config to use as the base.

{
  "extends": "@bigbite/build-tools/configs/tsconfig",
  "include": [
    "src/entrypoints",
    "src/types"
  ],
}

Please note that extending has additional effects when implementing include and exclude. Read the documentation for extends here.

Alternatively, if you need an entirely different tsconfig.json than the one that is provided, a tsconfig.json that is placed in the root of the project will be picket up by the build-tools, whether it is extended or not.

Performance Improvements

An improvement to project discovery has been added to speed up seeking of compatible projects. There should be no breaking changes or alterations for existing usages and implementations of build-tools.