So I have a series of scripts that are set up to either dev servers for a React/Node Express application OR a production server on heroku. The structure of the app is as follows:
client/package.json //pckg for react app
package.json //pckg for the node server
these are the scripts in the clients package:
"scripts": {
"start": "if-env NODE_ENV=production && npm run start:prod || npm run start:dev",
"start:prod": "node server.js",
"start:dev": "set NODE_ENV=development&& concurrently \"nodemon --ignore 'client/*'\" \"npm run client\"",
"client": "cd client && npm run start",
"seed": "node scripts/seedDB.js",
"install": "cd client && npm install",
"build": "cd client && npm run build",
"heroku-postbuild": "npm run build"
}
and the only difference between the react apps package.json and the one that is automatically generated with create-react-app is as follows:
"proxy": "http://localhost:3001/",
the way its supposed to run is, install scripts at root folder, run install script to cd into client and install react apps dependencies, then heroku's post-build script should kick in to run the build script which cds into client and builds a production ready react app. finally the start script should see a NODE_ENV of production and run start:prod.
my problem is that for some reason when i push to heroku, it seems to get stuck on an infinite loop on the install script. I have NO clue why, as the exact same scripts work on other projects PERFECTLY.
https://github.com/LordKriegan/reactdbdemo
https://github.com/LordKriegan/reactdbdemo2/ if anyone wants to look at it. (doing a full stack demo for my students :/ not much of a demo if i cant get it deployed)
I got it working. Forgot create-react-app also initializes a git repo...? either that or somewhere along the way i did an extra git init. anyways i had a .git folder in my client folder, which was preventing my client folder from being pushed up. i ended up creating a new repo and pushing everything to that one and now it works. so incase anyone comes here with a similar problem... make sure you didnt end up in some kind of gitception trap. :/
I have some start scripts that look like this:
"nodemonBabel": "nodemon src/index.js --exec babel-node",
"nodemonLint": "nodemon src/index.js --exec 'npm run lint && node'"
I use npm run nodemonBabel in cli to watch my code with nodemon and trigger Babel to transpile it on code change. I also use npm run nodemonLint to watch with nodemon while triggering eslint on code change.
How do I combine both scripts into a single line? I.e, watch my code with nodemon, lint and transpile with Babel from a single script which I don't have to rerun for every change?
What you want to do is run two scripts concurrently, see here: How can I run multiple npm scripts in parallel?
Use a package called concurrently.
npm i concurrently --save-dev
Then setup your npm run dev task as so:
"dev": "concurrently --kill-others \"npm run nodemonBabel\" \"npm run nodemonLint\""
I was developing my project in nodejs. I found if I need to code and test api, I will run two console, one is to execute typescript watch, another is to execute server.
I think it's so troublesome. I find other developers on github have written scripts in package.json. It's easy to call any commands. It attracts how to write the scripts and simply my development workflow.
In short, the comand of typescript watch is tsc -w and the comand of running server is node app.js. My idea is merge the commands as tsc -w & node app.js but I can't work the two commands at the same time. How do I do? Thanks.
My idea is merge the commands as tsc -w & node app.js but I can't work the two commands at the same time. How do I do
You have a few options. Simplest is to use ts-node-dev : https://github.com/whitecolor/ts-node-dev
Option 1
Step 1
install concurrently, use npm, pnpm or yarn
pnpm i concurrently -D
Step 2
create a script with this command
"scripts": {
"run": "tsc && concurrently \"tsc -w\" \"nodemon dist/app.js\"",
}
Option 2
without install anything (mac or Linux)
"scripts": {
"run": "tsc -w & nodemon dist/app.js",
}
run tsc first so that your directory has something at the time of running node
And with that you will have running your Typescript application 🚀
Another option can be to use nodemon:
tsc -w & nodemon app.js
Since Typescript 3.4 the compilation is faster because you can use the incremental compiler option and they keep improving (including interesting changes for large projects in 3.8).
Update:
I also moved to use concurrently as HerberthObregon says in his answer
TLDR, If you like nodemon this is a straight forward way to get file watch, compilation and execution:
nodemon --ext ts --exec 'tsc && node dist/index.js'
Optionally replace tsc with babel for faster compilation.
Here is a more complete example, in package.json (with source maps):
"scripts": {
"develop": "nodemon --ext ts --exec 'yarn build --incremental && yarn serve'",
"build": "tsc",
"serve": "node --require source-map-support/register dist/index.js",
...
},
Install source-map-support as a dependency if you want, ahem... source map support! Otherwise, remove --require source-map-support/register from the serve script above.
tsconfig.json
{
"compilerOptions": {
...
"sourceMap": true,
"outDir": "dist",
}
}
Building on herberthObregon's answer
Step 1: Install packages
npm install concurrently typescript nodemon --save-dev
Step 2: Create these scripts in package.json
"scripts": {
"build": "tsc",
"build:watch": "tsc -w",
"dev": "npm run build && concurrently \"npm run build:watch\" \"npm run serve:watch\"",
"serve": "node dist/index.js",
"serve:watch": "nodemon dist/index.js"
},
build runs a standard typescript build
build:watch runs typescript build in watch mode
serve serves up your node project (assuming your tsconfig outputs to dest/index/js)
serve:watch uses nodemon to restart the node server whenever the js output changes
dev puts them all together
Just going to throw my hat in here, here's a solution using ts-node-dev and concurrently, similar to the one provided by #HerberthObregon but using ts-node-dev instead of nodemon:
"scripts": {
"start": "npm run build && concurrently \"npm run build:watch\" \"npm run dev\"",
"dev": "tsnd --respawn src/main.ts",
"build": "tsc -p tsconfig.release.json",
"build:watch": "tsc -w -p tsconfig.release.json"
}
Bonus: If you need help with your figuring out tscand your tsconfig.json, I use the sensible defaults from this node typescript starter.
Here's a solution that works for me
1. Install ts-node and nodemon as dev dependencies
2. Create a script : "dev" : "nodemon app.ts"
I have these scripts as part of my package.json:
"scripts": {
"clean": "rm -rf lib",
"watch-js": "./node_modules/.bin/babel src -d lib --experimental -w",
"dev-server": "node lib/server/webpack",
"server": "nodemon lib/server/server",
"start": "npm run watch-js & npm run dev-server & npm run server",
"build": "npm run clean && ./node_modules/.bin/babel src -d lib --experimental"
}
When running 'npm run start', only the first task in the chain is running (npm run watch-js).
When running each one of these chained tasks simultaneously they work.
Also when swapping places between the tasks, always the first task is the only one to run.
How can i make all of the chained tasks under "start" to run?
see below:
scripts": {
"build": "node_modules/.bin/babel sercer/src --out-dir server/dist ",
"build:watch": "node_modules/.bin/babel server/src --out-dir server/dist --watch",
"start:server": "node ./node_modules/nodemon/bin/nodemon.js ./server/dist/app.js",
"dev" : "(npm run build:watch) && (npm run start:server)"
}
you know, both of them can work well when I run npm run xxx , but when i conbian them like npm run dev does,the last one will not taking effect.what wrong with my script?
You could try
"dev" : "npm run build:watch && npm run start:server"
you can use the post- and pre- scripts that will be called before and after that script.
eg :
"build": "npm run build:css && npm run build:js",
"prebuild:js": "npm run lint"
In the above example build will execute both build:css and build:js - but not before running the lint task.