minimal-node-ts-starter

• Uses node's --experimental-transform-types, so you can execute TypeScript files directly from node (so no build steps, and no tsm)
• Uses node's test runner
• Only dependencies are for typechecking and code linting/formatting

Tools required

Neither of these are actually required, but having them offers the simplest/cleanest way to use this repo.

• volta (for auto-installing/loading node/yarn from package.json config)
• direnv (for loading NODE_OPTIONS from .envrc)

This repo also comes with vscode settings for auto-formatting and validating the code, just make sure you have the recommended extensions installed.

Try it out

# run program
node ./src/index.ts

# run tests
yarn test

# run a single test file
yarn test ./src/__tests__/utils.test.ts