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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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ts-node

The TypeScript community has developed an alternative version of Node.js that is able to work with TypeScript files as if it was natively supported. This alternative version of Node.js is known as ts-node.

The ts-node command allows us to execute TypeScript files without having to compile them first. We can execute a TypeScript file using the following command:

    ts-node ./src/main_server.ts  

The example application uses npm scripts to create a more convenient version of this command:

"scripts": { 
  "ts-node": "ts-node ./src/main_server.ts" 
} 

The npm command can be executed as follows:

    npm run ts-node  

By default, the ts-node command tries to find the compilation setting in the tsconfig.json file and expects it to be located in the ...

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