Inspired by Gist from @danpetitt
Being frustrated by many outdated blog posts and misleading guides, I decided to create this boilerplate, so it may save hours/days of research to make things work which I would expect working out of the box (unfortunately, they don't).
This is a minimalistic setup using TypeScript with ESM modules for a typical Node.js project with some important capabilities (in my view) like debugging.
On top what is described in the original Gist, this repo contains the following features:
- Support for absolute paths when importing modules (to avoid hell of
../../../); - Pre-setup configs for debugging: both TS files and Jest tests for VSCode & WebStorm;
- Dev mode with watching for changed files (using tsx);
- Hide complex/scary configs by using official presets for
tsconfig&ts-jest(main motivation — less maintenance if something changes).
Enjoy! 🎉