Typescript learning experience

[nichoth]

It took some time to figure out how to compile a test. Finally landed on this npm script:

tsc --target es2020 --module es2020 --moduleResolution nodenext --skipLibCheck test/index.ts

Surprised because if you pass in a filename to the tsc command, then it doesn't seem to use the tsconfig.json file.

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esbuild will also just work with typescript source, so we don't have to use the tsc command at all:

"scripts": {
    "build-tests": "esbuild test/index.ts --bundle --keep-names",
    "test": "npm run build-tests --silent | tape-run | tap-arc",

We want to use esbuild here because tsc will not bundle our JS code.