[yamumsahoe]

btw if anyone is looking to run ts on node, there is tsx. there is also ts-node but i prefer tsx.

https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx

[iansinnott]

Seconded again. While tsx usually just works ts-node almost never just works. tsx is perhaps unfortunately named though so it may confuse people at first since it has nothing to do with jsx syntax.

[jimvdv]

Thank you for bringing this up, I almost ignored this project since I assumed it had something to do with TypeScript + JSX.

The JS ecosystem sure struggles with naming things.

[tommica]

The _programming_ ecosystem sure struggles with naming things.

[jimvdv]

Fair enough

[nikeee]

I own the npm package node-ts, which has thousands of installs per week just because people confuse it with ts-node.

I didn't intend to typo-squat. Actually, my package is older than ts-node and was just a pun because it is an API for TeamSpeak written in TypeScript.

[tills13]

It's named as such to mirror `npx`

[jessym]

I second this. The tsx library is zero config and always "just works" in my experience, which puts it miles ahead of ts-node, imo.

[wruza]

Tsx’s only reset-in-console mode is <Enter>, which makes it impossible to develop cli apps in watch mode.

You cannot run tsx from a non-project cwd if you’re using tsconfig/paths.

And personally I find its maintainers relatively unpleasant to message with. Leaves “you’re plebs” aftertaste most of the times.

[silverwind]

tsx has very slow startup performance, I prefer https://github.com/swc-project/swc-node which is around twice as fast.

[dimgl]

We have not seen this whatsoever. How big is your project? `tsx` is almost instantaneous in a server-side project of ours.

[silverwind]

A hello world here takes 400ms on tsx and 250ms on swc-node for me.

Basically it boils down to swc being faster than esbuild, see their benchmarks:

https://swc.rs/docs/benchmarks

[herpdyderp]

Does swc-node work with code coverage calculation libraries? For a long time tsx didn’t (and it’s still pretty finicky) so that kept me from using it.

[silverwind]

Not sure what features those need, but at least the stack traces are correct in swc-node, so maybe worth a try.