generator-typescript-webpack

Installing

First install the generator from npm

npm install generator-typescript-webpack -g
# append 'sudo' for Debian distro

mkdir -p <app-name> && cd <app-name> && yo typescript-webpack

Why?

Simplicity

This generator is simple, for those who don't want a overly complex scaffold that locks us into too many JS technologies!

Unified Build

TypeScript compilers as a standalone and in the IDE is great for experimentation.

However, real apps require fast code/test/browser refresh cycles. We need a fast build system that understands typescript and can plug into a well accepted testing framework.

This generator uses webpack and ts-loader to avoid multiple outputs such as a intermediate `/build' directory.

Testing

We don't want to separate the edit/browser refresh cycle to be different from edit/run test. webpack integrates nicely with karma so we choose to marry the two in this generator

TODOs

• Make the generator agnostic to the underlying testing framework (allow users to use mocha or jest)
• Out of the box sourcemap support
• Support for other layouts
• Optional dependency on phantomjs or Chrome for karma
• Accept CLI args