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 current directory.
The ts-node command is a very convenient tool when we want to try something without...