A code runner

[mkvlrn (mkvlrn)]

Is an official code runner (similar to what tsx currently does) something that would be considered in this project?

As of now you can either use tsx or node to strip types. I'm not going to consider nodemon, ts-node, or ts-node-dev alternatives because their usability and performance is subpar.

The node option is usable, but it doesn't know about tsconfig.json, so that's not great.

And tsx uses esbuild for now, maybe it'll use tsgo at some point, but the development, support, and discussions are locked behind a paywall. Plus the maintainer is... less than friendly towards non-paying users that would discuss the project in the issues (instead of opening the discussion feature in the "free" repo). It's a whole thing.

Assuming the performance of the tsgo compiler can be leveraged for running scripts/projects, would a tsgo run subcommand be doable? And would it be something "production ready", as in "no more compilation step required, just tsgo run in prod"?

[Jake Bailey (jakebailey)]

No, we have no plans for this.

I don't understand why tsconfig awareness is important for this case; strip types works great as-is.

[mkvlrn (mkvlrn)]

Jake Bailey (@jakebailey) To be perfectly honest, it's just path aliases.

[Jake Bailey (jakebailey)]

Those can be replaced with import maps in package.json, without TypeScript's involvement.

[mkvlrn (mkvlrn)]

Oh, subpath imports? I saw the topic mentioned somewhere a while ago but ignored it.

Looks promising, I'll take a look. Thanks!

[Jeongho Nam (samchon)]

mkvlrn (@mkvlrn) https://github.com/samchon/ttsc

I made ttsc: install it and you get a ttsx src/index.ts CLI command, a tsx-style runner on top of @typescript/native-preview.

Not a pure tsgo runner though - it also runs transformer plugins (something like typia).