esbuild-watch-restart

I loved nodemon + ts-node, for CommonJS. But unfortunately it is VERY DIFFICULT to set them up with ES Module.

So I did the same but with esbuild.

This package is designed to quickly solve the developper struggling issues related to ES Modules with typescript and nodejs, both build and watch/restart.

Install

Prerequisites:

You should already have a npm project using typescript, want to compile it with ESM (EcmaScript Modules), have set type=module in package.json.

npm i -D @jlguenego/esbuild-watch-restart

Use

To start a build like nodemon

npx ewr src/server.ts

For build only:

npx ewr --build-only src/server.ts

Of course this is better to create scripts in package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "ewr src/server.ts",
    "build": "ewr --build-only src/server.ts",
    "start:prod": "node dist/server.js",
    "clean": "rimraf dist",
    "lint": "eslint ."
  },

Configuration

KISS : Keep It Stupidely Simple

No configuration except:

• --build-only option.

Feel free to ask more options but you know it is better to not have a lot.

Examples

The repo has an examples project. Go in it to check its content.

Improvement

I intend to maintain regularely this project. So feel free to make issue for making it better for your needs.

I develop for users, not for the beauty of code.

Development

git clone https://github.com/jlguenego/esbuild-watch-restart.git

Publishing

To publish

cd lib
npm run release

Author

Jean-Louis GUENEGO [email protected]