Create Node Project

This is a Node+Express+Typescript StarterPack

Step 1:

  npm init -y

Step 2:

  npm install --save-dev typescript

Step 3:

  npx tsc --init

Step 4: Add this data in tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es2016",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "rootDir": "./src",
    "outDir": "./dist",
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,  
    "strict": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true
  }
}

Step 5:

  npm install express

Step 6:

  npm install --save-dev ts-node nodemon @types/express @types/node

Step 7: Create a src folder and create index.ts file inside it. And add this code in index.ts file.

  import express from 'express';

  const app = express();
  const port = 3000;

  app.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.send('Hello, World!');
  });

  app.listen(port, () => {
    return console.log(`Express server is listening at http://localhost:${port} 🚀`);
  });

Step 8: Add this code in scripts section of package.json

  "start": "tsc && node dist/index.js",
  "dev": "nodemon src/index.ts"

Step 9: Run this command to run the project

  npm run dev