TypeScript NodeJS Boilerplate ESM

To use this boilerplate, either clone it using git clone, download it as ZIP or use GitHub Repository Import.

The following are configured:

• TypeScript
• Yarn
• Jest
• ESLINT
• Custom base path starting from src/. Example: import { hi } from 'models/testfile'
• Auto reload with nodemon and building with webpack
• Prettier

And the following scripts:

• build - compiles source code into JS, outputs to dist
• test - runs tests using Jest
• start - compiles the server, then uses node to run it from the compiled files
• dev - runs the server in dev mode, and automatically refreshes
• lint - runs ESLint

Motivation

Using some libraries you could be forced to migrate your tsconfig.json from commonJS to ESM. In example, chalk.

We can solve this problem in two ways:

1. Downgrade specific library to be compatible with commonJS (use require internally)
2. Using tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin