How to make a shell executable node file using TypeScript

Question

Normally in node files I just put

#!/usr/bin/env node 

at the top and make it executable to create a file that can be run from a bash terminal.

Answer 1

If you have TypeScript and ts-node installed globally:

npm install typescript ts-node -g

You can now easily do this with:

#!/usr/bin/env ts-node

console.log('Hello world')