Basic template project for lightning fast and bug free Advent of Code puzzle solving!

https://adventofcode.com/2020

Happy Advent!

1. git clone [email protected]:bpiggin/advent-of-code-typescript-starter.git
2. cd advent-of-code-typescript-starter && yarn install

💅 Prettier: Auto formatting!

🃏 Jest: Instant test feedback!

⚙️ Auto Generated Boilerplate: Script to create new folder with test code and functions for each day!

✍️ Input Parser: Parse problem inputs easily!

🐛 Debug Config: Breakpoint through your code with no compile step!

Writing input parsing and project structure boilerplate every day is annoying. Having instant test feedback is really useful.

Run yarn test which will start jest in watch mode. Run in vscode terminal for instant feedback. By default it will run for files that have changed in git. Commit previous days so their tests don't run anymore.

You will need to run chmod +x newDay.sh && chmod +x partTwo.sh so you can run the scripts. Then run yarn day {day} e.g. yarn day 2 will create a day2 folder with day2.ts, day2.test.ts and day2.data.ts files with boilerplate code.

yarn part2 {day} will generate day1.part2.ts and day1.part2.test.ts files.

The Debug Jest Tests debug config will run your jest tests and let you breakpoint through them.

log() will log to stdout but without the annoying line numbers from jest. If you want line numbers use console.log().

parseInput function will also try to parse the puzzle input for you but beware! I have no idea what formats the inputs will be in this year...

logAnswer will print your problem answer from the jest tests with ---- to make it super visible.