build in 'prepare' script

[adrian-delgado]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be nice to not require typescript installed globally when yarn add/npm installing this package.

Describe the solution you'd like
running tsc -p tsconfig.json in the prepare script instead of the postinstall should have access to the node_modules folder. Also including typescript (or tsc) as a dev dependency will be required. This way the tsc command will reference typescript from the node_modules folder.

Describe alternatives you've considered
none

Additional context
sorry if this has been tried before, but I suppose there has to be a way to not require the consuming project to have global node modules installed.

[djorg83]

I agree with the above ^ request. You should generally avoid publishing files that need to be compiled/transpiled in order for the package to be used. Please consider compiling your typescript into a /dist folder, then only publish the contents of the /dist folder to npm. This can be accomplished via .npmignore and/or the package.json "files" attribute.

Edit:
I came here because this broke my build pipeline, because this particular project Im working on is not using typescript, which is why tsc wasn't installed on the build server.

[rolandpeelen]

I agree to both these, my build pipeline breaks too. Here is a PR to the proposed solution: #19