Listing of community-contributed starter/boilerplate projects?

[bitjson]

After struggling to configure a Typescript project which exports both a CommonJS and ES6 module (for tree-shaking with Rollup), I spent some time putting together a typescript-starter project with source-mapped test coverage, typedoc documentation generation, a performant watch task, etc.

Looking around, there are dozens of outdated and neglected starters/boilerplates available, but none seem to have gained enough traction to continue being updated when newer versions of Typescript or improved tooling becomes available. (E.g. many are still using tsd, which has been deprecated.)

Electron does really well (IMO) with promoting community-maintained tools and projects – have you all considered providing something similar on the Typescript website or README.md? It might really help the ecosystem to coalesce around and maintain a few strong options.

[mhegazy]

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScriptSamples was meant to be a one-stop-shop for samples/starter kits. We are still happy to accept PRs into that.

As for the website, I think we would benefit from adding more useful information on the community/connect tab, today, it only hosts links to Definitely Typed and friends.

[bitjson]

Related – typescript-starter now has an interactive CLI, so you can simply run npx typescript-starter and follow the prompts to start a new project using the boilerplate:

A few new popular tooling options have been added, and a lot of the previous tooling has been scaled back to be as minimal as possible.

It should serve as a good starting point, even if you plan to customize a lot more.

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I'd love to help out with community section on the website if you're looking for external contributions. Are there any plans for how it will evolve yet?

[orta]

This is in 👍