create-typescript-library

This is a nodejs command line util that will setup the basic structure for my (and your) next typescript library.

How it works?

Simply run npx create-typescript-library in an empty directory where you want to create your typescript library. If you are using yarn, run yarn exec create-typescript-library.

What it does

create-typescript-library will run an interactive prompt to gather information from you, and generate a basic working typescript library for you. Some examples include:

• Use typescript compiler (tsc) to compile your library:
  • to commonjs code to consume
  • to es2015 code to consume
• Use webpack version 4 to bundle your library:
  • to UMD module for others
• Setup npm/yarn scripts for easy build
  • dev to compile or bundle code
  • dev:watch to watch the file changes (by nodemon) and run the dev script
  • build to generate minimized code for publishing
  • test to run test against bundle results, library and demo

Useful links

• Refer to tslint config for tslint configuration details
• Refer to nodemon config for nodemon configuration sample
• Refer to webpack config for webpack configuration details

Special thanks

Inspired by the awesome blog post Compiling and bundling TypeScript libraries with Webpack by Marco Botto