Typescript Boilerplate
A modern TypeScript project setup, for Node.js and browsers
Overview:
The TypeScript Boilerplate for 2022 is a project template with modern tooling for developing TypeScript programs, libraries, and browser modules. It provides a quick and easy way to get started with TypeScript development and includes features such as TypeScript 4, esbuild bundling, linting with typescript-eslint, testing with Jest, publishing to npm, continuous integration with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, and automatic API documentation generation with TypeDoc.
Features:
- TypeScript 4: The boilerplate is based on TypeScript 4, allowing developers to take advantage of the latest features and improvements offered by TypeScript.
- esbuild bundling: The project uses esbuild, an extremely fast bundler that supports a large part of the TypeScript syntax, to bundle for browsers and optional bundling for Node.js.
- Linting with typescript-eslint: The boilerplate uses typescript-eslint for linting TypeScript code, which provides enhanced linting rules and better integration with TypeScript compared to the deprecated tslint.
- Testing with Jest: Jest is used as the testing framework for the boilerplate, allowing developers to write unit tests and run them with ease.
- Publishing to npm: The boilerplate provides scripts and configurations for publishing the TypeScript project to the npm registry, making it easy to distribute the project as a reusable library.
- Continuous integration with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI: The boilerplate includes configuration files for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, enabling automated testing and deployment workflows for the project.
- Automatic API documentation with TypeDoc: TypeDoc is used to automatically generate API documentation from the TypeScript source files. The generated documentation can be published to GitHub Pages or GitLab Pages through the continuous integration setup.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
