A base TSConfig for working with Node 12.

Add the package to your "devDependencies":

npm install --save-dev @tsconfig/node12
yarn add --dev @tsconfig/node12

Add to your tsconfig.json:

"extends": "@tsconfig/node12/tsconfig.json"

The tsconfig.json:

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/tsconfig",
  "_version": "12.1.0",

  "compilerOptions": {
    "lib": ["es2019", "es2020.promise", "es2020.bigint", "es2020.string"],
    "module": "node16",
    "target": "es2019",

    "strict": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "moduleResolution": "node16"
  }
}

You can find the code here.