How to run TypeScript files from command line?

Question

I\'m having a surprisingly hard time finding an answer to this. With plain Node.JS, you can run any js file with node path/to/file.js, with CoffeeScript it\'s <

Answer 1

Just in case anyone is insane like me and wants to just run typescript script as though it was a .js script, you can try this. I've written a hacky script that appears to execute the .ts script using node.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

NODEPATH="$HOME/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.3/bin" # set path to your node/tsc

export TSC="$NODEPATH/tsc"
export NODE="$NODEPATH/node"

TSCFILE=$1 # only parameter is the name of the ts file you created.

function show_usage() {
    echo "ts2node [ts file]"
    exit 0
}

if [ "$TSCFILE" == "" ]
then
    show_usage;
fi

JSFILE="$(echo $TSCFILE|cut -d"." -f 1).js"

$TSC $TSCFILE && $NODE $JSFILE

You can do this or write your own but essentially, it creates the .js file and then uses node to run it like so:

# tsrun myscript.ts

Simple. Just make sure your script only has one "." else you'll need to change your JSFILE in a different way than what I've shown.