About

ts is an integrated toolchain for building, testing, and releasing modern TypeScript projects. It can be compared to tools like create-react-app, with a focus on quality and flexibility. Its target audience are experienced developers who are familiar with modern JavaScript tooling and are looking for a way to simplify and consolidate their build and release process across various projects.

The core features of ts are:

Dependency Management

The common dependencies needed to build and release a modern, high-quality JavaScript/TypeScript project are provided by ts. Using a single dependency for a project's entire toolchain reduces the maintenance burden of keeping dependencies up to date and ensures tooling and related plugins are kept in sync and compatible, allowing the you to focus building awesome software. ✨

Configuration Management

ts is opinionated insofar as it ships with a default configuration for each tool it provides. However, base configurations can always be customized to suit a project's needs, or not used at all. Rather than implementing a feature like "eject", ts aims to be flexible enough to support projects of varying complexity by giving the developer the ability to opt-out of or easily override/re-configure the provided defaults.

Task-Running

A good build toolchain needs to have a developer-friendly API; typically a command-line tool. That CLI is effectively the developer's user interface; it is what they will interact with every time they want to build, test, or otherwise work on a project. For small projects, NPM's package scripts will suffice. As projects grow, they typically require a more sophisticated tool to accommodate the more complex requirements of larger applications. ts uses nr, a robust task-runner for JavaScript projects. Specifically, it encourages you to document and organize your scripts, making it easy for new developers to quickly comprehend how to interact with your project's build/test/deploy systems.

ts provides a comprehensive set of scripts that you can use in your project with just a 2-line configuration file.

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Sandbox & Template Repository

ts offers a couple of ways for you to experiment with it.

First, there is a StackBlitz sandbox that contains a simple Node application based on ts. Use it to get up and running in seconds if you just want to mess around.

If you'd like to start a new project based on ts, there is a GitHub template repository that you can clone with a single click; just replace a few fields in package.json and start coding!