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ws-ts

v1.1.4

Published

build|watch typescript projects(backend) with paths.

Downloads

14

Readme

ws-ts

ws-ts is a cli tool for build typescript project to javascript with paths map. for example, if your tsconfig.json looks like:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "lib": [ "es2015" ],
    "outDir": "./dist",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "target": "es2015",
    "sourceMap": false,
    "watch": false,
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "paths": {
      "@src/*": [ "src/*" ],
      "@utils/*": [ "src/utils/*"],
      "@context/*": [ "src/context/*" ],
      "@commands/*": [ "src/commands/*" ],
      "@commands": [ "src/commands" ],
      "@utils": [ "src/utils" ],
      "@context": [ "src/context" ]
    }
  }
}

then you will use @utils instead of something like ../../src/utils. but it can't work in javascript project(maybe it's just that I'm rubbish, and if you have a smarter way, please let me know :).)

use ws-ts build <path> can resolved this problem. but there are some limits:

  • you must set @ prefix for the paths-key as you've seen above.
  • you should always use simple rules.

Install

npm install -g ws-ts

Usage

before you use ws-ts, please ensure you have installed typescript in global environment. and make sure your tsconfig.json is exists and without watch: true.

ws-ts build <path> [--out <outPath>] [-c, --clean] [--log-level <log-level>] [--log-flag <flag>]

Details

  • <path>: specified the typescript project location (usually is .).
  • <outPath>: specified output directory (usually is dist/). default value is the outDir option for tsc.
  • [-c, --clean]: the flag whether clean garbage described in .wsts.partial.yml. default value is false.
  • --log*: see colorful-chalk-logger

.wsts.partial.yml

It's a config file to custom the ws-ts behavior. for example:

# resource-ignore-patterns:
#  - dist
#  - out

#
# only valid in the outputDirectory.
# javascript-source-patterns:
#  - 'src/**/*.js'
#  - 'index.js'

#
# only valid in the outputDirectory.
 garbage-patterns:
  - tsconfig.json
  • resource-ignore-patterns: specified the rules for resources that needn't to be considered. only works in sourceDirectory.
  • javascript-source-patterns: specified the rules for javascript files to consider. only works in outputDirectory
  • garbage-patterns: specified the rules for garbage files to consider. only works in outputDirectory.

Example

git clone [email protected]:LittleClown/ws-ts.git
cd ws-ts
ts-node -r tsconfig-paths/register index.ts build . --clean --log-level=debug

watch

ws-ts watch <path>

this command can monitor the sourceDirectory's resource files' changed, created and removed.