create-base-ts

create-base-ts is an npm initializer that will create a basic typescript application. Additional parameters can be passed to further tailor what is needed.

At its most basic level, it will install typescript and ts-lint dev-dependencies, an Apache-2.0 license, src and test directories, and a basic tsconfig.json file.

You can run it like this:

npm init base-ts <name-of-project> [options]

Or alternatively with npx like this:

npx create-base-ts <name-of-project> [options]

After which you should see the following:

name-of-project
- /src
- /test
- /dist
- package.json
- tsconfig.json
- LICENSE

Options

There are a couple of options that you can pass to create-base-ts to make it more useful.

• -r, --react will also add react, react-dom and @types definitions with webpack and dependencies
• -p, --parcel will use parcel (Only useful if -r also selected. Uses webpack by default)
• -d, --deps comma separated list of additional dependencies
• --dev-deps comma separated list of dev-dependencies
• --license <MIT, BSD-2, BSD-3> Defaults to Apache-2.0

react

Adding this option means that the latest version of react and react-dom will be added to the package.json file. In addition, webpack will be added as a dependency

Example:

npm init base-ts my-project -r

parcel

This option is only useful in conjunction with -r above, otherwise it is ignored. If this is set, then it will add parcel instead of webpack as a dependency

Example:

npm init base-ts my-project -rp

deps

You can pass additional dependencies here, either in a comma separated format, or multiple times. The latest version of the dependencies will be added to the package.json

Example:

npm init base-ts my-project -d rxjs -d ramda

# alternatively

npm init base-ts my-project -d rxjs,ramda

dev-deps

As deps above, but these dependencies will be added to the devDependencies field of the package.json.

Example:

npm init base-ts my-project --dev-dep ava --dev-dep @types/config

# alternatively

npm init base-ts my-project --dev-dep ava,@types/config

license

You can pass one of 3 different options: BSD-2, BSD-3 or MIT. The default is to use Apache-2.0. This will set the license field of the package.json, as well as include the appropriate LICENSE file.

Example:

npm init base-ts my-project -l MIT