tsmon is a tool that helps develop typescript based applications by automatically transpile and restarting the process when file changes are detected.

npm i -g git+ssh://[email protected]/e2tox/tsmon.git

tsmon [node arguments] your-app.ts [arguments...]

Reload typescript project with 456 ts files only took 1 sec.

1. Just run the index.ts

tsmon index.ts

2. You want pass some parameter to your app

tsmon index.ts hello typescript 2019

3. You want debugging the process

tsmon --inspect index.ts

4. You want pass some parameter to your code and debug

tsmon --inspect index.ts hello world

5. You want ignore type check errors

tsmon --ignore-error index.ts

6. You want watch additional directory conf

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    ...
  },
  "watch": ["conf"]
}

• Run .ts file with zero configuration
• Incremental type check
• Incremental transpile
• Automatically reload on .ts / tsconfig.json changes
• Gracefully shutdown running process
• Support node arguments
• Support additional command line arguments
• Manual reload with 'rs' command
• Output changed file name
• Monitoring additional directories other than code files. ("watch":string[] in tsconfig.json)
• License under Anti 996
• Support path alias in tsconfig.json
• Support source map
• Add --ignore-error option to ignore type errors

Copyright 2021 Ling Zhang

Licensed under the "Anti 996", License Version 1.0 (Draft) (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

https://unpkg.com/tsmon/LICENSE

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.