For a plain Javascript alternative, check out js-library-boilerplate-basic.

⭐️ Features

• Webpack 5
• Babel 7
• Hot reloading (npm start)
• Automatic Types file generation (index.d.ts)
• UMD exports, so your library works everywhere.
• Jest unit testing
• Customizable file headers for your build (Example 1) (Example2)
• Daily dependabot dependency updates

📦 Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/hodgef/ts-library-boilerplate-basic.git myLibrary
npm install

💎 Customization

Before shipping, make sure to:

1. Edit LICENSE file
2. Edit package.json information (These will be used to generate the headers for your built files)
3. Edit library: "MyLibrary" with your library's export name in ./webpack.config.js

🚀 Deployment

1. npm publish
2. Your users can include your library as usual

npm

import MyLibrary from 'my-library';
const libraryInstance = new MyLibrary();
...

self-host/cdn

<script src="build/index.js"></script>

const MyLibrary = window.MyLibrary.default;
const libraryInstance = new MyLibrary();
...

✅ Libraries built with this boilerplate

Made a library using this starter kit? Share it here by submitting a pull request!

• simple-keyboard - Javascript Virtual Keyboard
• react-simple-keyboard - React Virtual Keyboard
• simple-keyboard-layouts - Keyboard layouts for simple-keyboard