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I’ve found TSX to be a better alternative to ts-node. It seems to have more sensible defaults in 2023. https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx https://github.com/p

I’ve found TSX to be a better alternative to ts-node. It seems to have more sensible defaults in 2023. https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx

lloydatkinson 3y ago
I was about to say exactly this. If you’re writing Node scripts there’s no reason to use ts-node as tsx, by default, does the correct thing and works correctly with ES modules. Of course, Deno offers a better experience for scripts or programs.
- khalidx 3y ago
  I tried `tsx` but it didn't work for some reason (can't remember why right now). Also, if you've been using `ts-node` and feel comfortable with it, this setup should work for you instead of switching your toolchain.
  - privatenumber 3y ago
    tsx v4 was released a couple weeks ago which addressed many incompatibility issues. Hope you have a chance to give it another shot :)
    - khalidx 3y ago
      I definitely will!
vmfunction 3y ago
or esno, which is tsx with esbuild.
- lhnz 3y ago
  I'm using `esyes` [0] by Yehuda Katz and the logic is simple and it works very well. [0] https://github.com/starbeamjs/esyes https://github.com/starbeamjs/esyes
  - vmfunction 3y ago
    thanks for sharing! Didn't know about this one.
- madeofpalk 3y ago
  tsx is "tsx with esbuild" though?
domh 3y ago
I use node-dev which seems to have good ts support. node-dev with --respawn is a good cheap way to watch and rerun ts files on change!
herpdyderp 3y ago
Tsx is great but doesn’t work in all situations unfortunately. Some broken cases that I remember off the top of my head are Playwright and test coverage.
- privatenumber 3y ago
  Maintainer of tsx here. tsx should be able to handle Playwright as of v4+, and hopefully the test coverage you're referring to. Before, it was compiling ESM syntax to CJS as an effort to ease the ecosystem's CJS -> ESM migration, and hiccuping whenever it encountered `eval()`. Now it includes smarter checks to determine if a file needs to be compiled at all and skips processing most dependencies. Hope it works well for you!
  - e1g 3y ago
    Can confirm we use tsx with playwright with no issues. Thanks!
  - herpdyderp 3y ago
    I see v4 was published just 12 days ago. I'll have to give it another shot! Thanks!
bruh2 3y ago
Love this project, used it quite a bit. However I always opt for using esno[1] instead, merely because of the name; having two tools share the same name throws me off. [1] https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno
- madeofpalk 3y ago
  > From v0.15, esno is essentially an alias of tsx heh. It really is https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno/blob/master/esno.js https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno/blob/master/esno.js

I’ve found TSX to be a better alternative to ts-node. It seems to have more sensible defaults in 2023. https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx

lloydatkinson 3y ago

I was about to say exactly this. If you’re writing Node scripts there’s no reason to use ts-node as tsx, by default, does the correct thing and works correctly with ES modules. Of course, Deno offers a better experience for scripts or programs.

khalidx 3y ago
I tried `tsx` but it didn't work for some reason (can't remember why right now). Also, if you've been using `ts-node` and feel comfortable with it, this setup should work for you instead of switching your toolchain.
- privatenumber 3y ago
  tsx v4 was released a couple weeks ago which addressed many incompatibility issues. Hope you have a chance to give it another shot :)
  - khalidx 3y ago
    I definitely will!

vmfunction 3y ago

or esno, which is tsx with esbuild.

lhnz 3y ago
I'm using `esyes` [0] by Yehuda Katz and the logic is simple and it works very well. [0] https://github.com/starbeamjs/esyes https://github.com/starbeamjs/esyes
- vmfunction 3y ago
  thanks for sharing! Didn't know about this one.
madeofpalk 3y ago
tsx is "tsx with esbuild" though?

domh 3y ago

I use node-dev which seems to have good ts support. node-dev with --respawn is a good cheap way to watch and rerun ts files on change!

herpdyderp 3y ago

Tsx is great but doesn’t work in all situations unfortunately. Some broken cases that I remember off the top of my head are Playwright and test coverage.

privatenumber 3y ago
Maintainer of tsx here. tsx should be able to handle Playwright as of v4+, and hopefully the test coverage you're referring to. Before, it was compiling ESM syntax to CJS as an effort to ease the ecosystem's CJS -> ESM migration, and hiccuping whenever it encountered `eval()`. Now it includes smarter checks to determine if a file needs to be compiled at all and skips processing most dependencies. Hope it works well for you!
- e1g 3y ago
  Can confirm we use tsx with playwright with no issues. Thanks!
- herpdyderp 3y ago
  I see v4 was published just 12 days ago. I'll have to give it another shot! Thanks!

bruh2 3y ago

Love this project, used it quite a bit. However I always opt for using esno[1] instead, merely because of the name; having two tools share the same name throws me off. [1] https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno

madeofpalk 3y ago
> From v0.15, esno is essentially an alias of tsx heh. It really is https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno/blob/master/esno.js https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno/blob/master/esno.js