Support for TypeScript template and eject command

Hi, guys. It will be nice to include in fastify-cli support for TypeScript projects. In order to generate a TS project we need to change some of the current fastify-cli’s commands and to add one new:

• start start a server -> here we can add support for .ts files (auto-discover file extension), add default tsconfig.json file with default compilation rules and use ts-node with inline sourcemap generation to run the code. Notes: Running .ts is not intended for production environment, .ts files will be inside /src folder, as this is a TS standard defacto.
• generate generate a new project -> we need to add new arg --typescript (-ts) to generate TypeScript project with all dependencies and to add to package.json typings and typescript compiler. In addition we need (just one?) new npm-script to build .ts code.
• eject ejects the app (new command) -> creates server.ts file and compiles all TypeScript code from src to build (or dist) folder and modifies scripts to use newly generated paths. Note: this command could be used also by JS projects.

In addition to that, what do you think to add one more new npm-script for running debugger in package.json? It would be nice to have it ready inside package.json.

I am looking forward for ideas and I am ready to implement this feature,

[alemagio]

Hi, i wanted to use the cli for my own project and found out there is no TS support. If no one else is working on this I would like to open a PR.

I think an option like: –lang=typescript should be good with default like: –lang=javascript

sounds good?

[mcollina]

I’m +1 on adding support for ts.