A highly opinionated Yeoman generator for typescript modules

Introduction

This is a highly opinionated Yeoman generator for building Typescript-based modules with the following features:

• Complete Grunt-based tasks to transpile and test your Typescript files
• Mocha and Chai-based testing framework
• Istanbul-based coverage calculation
• Loglevel Logger set up
• Support for Bluebird-based promises (including testing capabilities based on chai-as-promised)
• Code Style checking based on ESlint, Typescript-eslint and Prettier with some opinionated settings
• Git ignore set up for Node and major IDEs

Usage

Install yo and generator-dodevops-typescript globally:

npm install -g yo generator-dodevops-typescript

Create a new directory and run the generator

mkdir my-project
cd my-project
yo dodevops-typescript

The generator will ask you a few questions and then you can start right away by opening then example class in index.ts in your favourite editor or IDE.