[turadg]

The new *deno pack* command is a nice addition for safe and simple packaging.

For those using Node.js, a similar single command is available with https://www.npmjs.com/package/ts-node-pack

Now that Node.js supports importing .ts modules, more repos can use them without a build step or putting any build artifacts in the checkout.

[WorldMaker]

Yeah, that's my immediate debate in reading this blog post: `deno pack` might be a great replacement to my existing `npm publish` workflow for my open source packages and continue shifting my work to Deno-first/Deno-mostly, but on the flipside, with Node's growing TS support I'm also considering switching to Typescript-only npm packages as a (tiny) message to the ecosystem.

Though I'm also happy that JSR exists as that (mostly) cleaner ecosystem.

[Ciantic]

Node refuses to support TypeScript within node_modules, see https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/58429 this means you can't do "Typescript-only npm packages".

They made that intentionally at the beginning:

> Currently there is consensus that Node.js should NOT run TypeScript files inside `node_modules. It is not supported to avoid package maintainers to release TS only package.

[notnullorvoid]

It sounds a lot like DNT (https://github.com/denoland/dnt) which has existed for a long time, but having it in Deno cli does bring significant visibility.