The year is 2021. Creating a TypeScript project with sensible default development tools is still a P.I.T.A. So, here's a mind-numbingly simplistic bash script to initialize a bare TypeScript project with eslint, Prettier, nodemon and Jest.
Don't like one of them? Just replace the install with the package(s) that you like, then change the cat <<EOF> ... portion of the corresponding configuration file to the default configuration of your choosing. It's just a bash script.
This assumes you have Yarn 1.x. If you like npm, go ahead, change the script to use npm; your computer won't explode. If you like Yarn 2.x... bless your soul. npm comes bundled with your Node.js installation, Yarn can be downloaded via npm npm i -g yarn.
Just clone this project somewhere comfortable.
git clone https://github.com/kyleamazza/tsinit.git
SSH for cool people
git clone [email protected]:kyleamazza/tsinit.git
Add this script somewhere in your PATH and make it executable with sudo chmod +x /path/to/tsinit.
tsinit <your-project-name>
Run this in the directory below which you want your project to be made (this creates a new folder with <your-project-name> in that directory)
No options, no flags, no extra arguments, no help messages. All it does is run Yarn/npm to install a bunch of dev dependencies, and then copy some text into configuration files. Everything is @latest.