node-typescript-boilerplate
๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป Developer Ready: A comprehensive template. Works out of the box for most Node.js projects.
๐๐ฝ Instant Value: All basic tools included and configured:
- TypeScript 3.9
- ESLint with some initial rules recommendation
- Jest for fast unit testing and code coverage
- Type definitions for Node.js and Jest
- Prettier to enforce consistent code style
- NPM scripts for common operations
- simple example of TypeScript code and unit test
- .editorconfig for consistent file format
- example configuration for GitHub Actions and Travis CI
Getting Started
This project is intended to be used with the latest Active LTS release of Node.js.
Use as a repository template
To start, just click the Use template link (or the green button). Now start adding your code in the src
and unit tests in the __tests__
directories.
Clone repository
To clone the repository use the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/jsynowiec/node-typescript-boilerplate
cd node-typescript-boilerplate
npm install
Download latest release
Download and unzip current master
branch or one of tags:
wget https://github.com/jsynowiec/node-typescript-boilerplate/archive/master.zip -O node-typescript-boilerplate.zip
unzip node-typescript-boilerplate.zip && rm node-typescript-boilerplate.zip
Available Scripts
clean
- remove coverage data, Jest cache and transpiled files,build
- transpile TypeScript to ES6,build:watch
- interactive watch mode to automatically transpile source files,lint
- lint source files and tests,test
- run tests,test:watch
- interactive watch mode to automatically re-run tests
Additional Informations
Writing tests in JavaScript
Writing unit tests in TypeScript can sometimes be troublesome and confusing. Especially when mocking dependencies and using spies.
This is optional, but if you want to learn how to write JavaScript tests for TypeScript modules, read the corresponding wiki page.
Backers & Sponsors
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License
Licensed under the APLv2. See the LICENSE file for details.