node-typescript-boilerplate

👩🏻‍💻 Developer Ready: A comprehensive template. Works out of the box for most Node.js projects.

🏃🏽 Instant Value: All basic tools included and configured:

• TypeScript 4.5
• 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
• Reproducible environments thanks to Volta
• Example configuration for GitHub Actions

🤲 Free as in speech: available under the APLv2 license.

Getting Started

This project is intended to be used for building Alaya packages. This boilerplate will help speed up development and reduce repetitive issues from the foundation of the packages. This project should 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). Start adding your code in the src and unit tests in the __tests__ directories.

Clone repository

To use this repository inside the Alaya packages, use the following commands:

cd packages
git clone https://github.com/alayagood/node-typescript-boilerplate package-name
cd package-name
npm install

Next, remove the .git folder for this package so that the parent .git folder will be the basis of the repository.

rm -rf .git

To create a standalone project, clone the repository. Use the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/alayagood/node-typescript-boilerplate
cd node-typescript-boilerplate
npm install

Download latest release

Download and unzip the current main branch or one of the tags:

wget https://github.com/alayagood/node-typescript-boilerplate/archive/main.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,
• prebuild - lint source files and tests before building,
• 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

Why include Volta

Volta’s toolchain always keeps track of where you are, it makes sure the tools you use always respect the settings of the project you’re working on. This means you don’t have to worry about changing the state of your installed software when switching between projects. For example, it's used by engineers at LinkedIn to standardize tools and have reproducible development environments.

I recommend to install Volta and use it to manage your project's toolchain.

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.