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# TypeScript library starter
# Dev.to git: One way publishing of your blog posts from a git repo to dev.to

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## First, what is dev.to?

A starter project that makes creating a TypeScript library extremely easy.
https://dev.to is a free and open source blogging platform for developers.

![](https://i.imgur.com/opUmHp0.png)
> dev.to (or just DEV) is a platform where software developers write articles, take part in discussions, and build their professional profiles. We value supportive and constructive dialogue in the pursuit of great code and career growth for all members. The ecosystem spans from beginner to advanced developers, and all are welcome to find their place within our community.
### Usage
## Why would I want to put all my blog posts on a git repo?

```bash
git clone https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter.git YOURFOLDERNAME
cd YOURFOLDERNAME
- Don't be afraid to mess up with one of your articles while editing it
- Same good practices as when you're developing (format, commits, saving history, compare, etc)
- Use prettier to format the markdown and all the code
- Let people contribute to your article by creating a PR against it (tired of comments going sideways because of some typos? Just let people know they can make a PR at the end of your blog post)
- Create code examples close to your blog post and make sure they're correct thanks to [Embedme](https://github.com/zakhenry/embedme) (_\*1_)

# Run npm install and write your library name when asked. That's all!
npm install
```

**Start coding!** `package.json` and entry files are already set up for you, so don't worry about linking to your main file, typings, etc. Just keep those files with the same name.

### Features

- Zero-setup. After running `npm install` things will setup for you :wink:
- **[RollupJS](https://rollupjs.org/)** for multiple optimized bundles following the [standard convention](http://2ality.com/2017/04/setting-up-multi-platform-packages.html) and [Tree-shaking](https://alexjoverm.github.io/2017/03/06/Tree-shaking-with-Webpack-2-TypeScript-and-Babel/)
- Tests, coverage and interactive watch mode using **[Jest](http://facebook.github.io/jest/)**
- **[Prettier](https://github.com/prettier/prettier)** and **[TSLint](https://palantir.github.io/tslint/)** for code formatting and consistency
- **Docs automatic generation and deployment** to `gh-pages`, using **[TypeDoc](http://typedoc.org/)**
- Automatic types `(*.d.ts)` file generation
- **[Travis](https://travis-ci.org)** integration and **[Coveralls](https://coveralls.io/)** report
- (Optional) **Automatic releases and changelog**, using [Semantic release](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release), [Commitizen](https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli), [Conventional changelog](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog) and [Husky](https://github.com/typicode/husky) (for the git hooks)

### Importing library

You can import the generated bundle to use the whole library generated by this starter:

```javascript
import myLib from 'mylib';
```

Additionally, you can import the transpiled modules from `dist/lib` in case you have a modular library:

```javascript
import something from 'mylib/dist/lib/something';
```

### NPM scripts

- `npm t`: Run test suite
- `npm start`: Run `npm run build` in watch mode
- `npm run test:watch`: Run test suite in [interactive watch mode](http://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/cli.html#watch)
- `npm run test:prod`: Run linting and generate coverage
- `npm run build`: Generate bundles and typings, create docs
- `npm run lint`: Lints code
- `npm run commit`: Commit using conventional commit style ([husky](https://github.com/typicode/husky) will tell you to use it if you haven't :wink:)

### Excluding peerDependencies

On library development, one might want to set some peer dependencies, and thus remove those from the final bundle. You can see in [Rollup docs](https://rollupjs.org/#peer-dependencies) how to do that.

Good news: the setup is here for you, you must only include the dependency name in `external` property within `rollup.config.js`. For example, if you want to exclude `lodash`, just write there `external: ['lodash']`.

### Automatic releases

_**Prerequisites**: you need to create/login accounts and add your project to:_
_\*1: Embedme allows you to write code in actual files rather than your readme, and then from your Readme to make sure that your examples are matching those files._

- [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/)
- [Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org)
- [Coveralls](https://coveralls.io)
If you prefer not to use Prettier or Embed me, you can do so by simply removing them but I think it's a nice thing to have!

_**Prerequisite for Windows**: Semantic-release uses
**[node-gyp](https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp)** so you will need to
install
[Microsoft's windows-build-tools](https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows-build-tools)
using this command:_
## How do I choose which files I want to publish?

```bash
npm install --global --production windows-build-tools
```

#### Setup steps

Follow the console instructions to install semantic release and run it (answer NO to "Do you want a `.travis.yml` file with semantic-release setup?").

_Note: make sure you've setup `repository.url` in your `package.json` file_

```bash
npm install -g semantic-release-cli
semantic-release-cli setup
# IMPORTANT!! Answer NO to "Do you want a `.travis.yml` file with semantic-release setup?" question. It is already prepared for you :P
```

From now on, you'll need to use `npm run commit`, which is a convenient way to create conventional commits.

Automatic releases are possible thanks to [semantic release](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release), which publishes your code automatically on [github](https://github.com/) and [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/), plus generates automatically a changelog. This setup is highly influenced by [Kent C. Dodds course on egghead.io](https://egghead.io/courses/how-to-write-an-open-source-javascript-library)

### Git Hooks
There's a `dev-to-git.json` file where you can define an array of blog posts, e.g.

There is already set a `precommit` hook for formatting your code with Prettier :nail_care:

By default, there are two disabled git hooks. They're set up when you run the `npm run semantic-release-prepare` script. They make sure:

- You follow a [conventional commit message](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog)
- Your build is not going to fail in [Travis](https://travis-ci.org) (or your CI server), since it's runned locally before `git push`

This makes more sense in combination with [automatic releases](#automatic-releases)

### FAQ

#### `Array.prototype.from`, `Promise`, `Map`... is undefined?

TypeScript or Babel only provides down-emits on syntactical features (`class`, `let`, `async/await`...), but not on functional features (`Array.prototype.find`, `Set`, `Promise`...), . For that, you need Polyfills, such as [`core-js`](https://github.com/zloirock/core-js) or [`babel-polyfill`](https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/polyfill/) (which extends `core-js`).

For a library, `core-js` plays very nicely, since you can import just the polyfills you need:

```javascript
import "core-js/fn/array/find"
import "core-js/fn/string/includes"
import "core-js/fn/promise"
...
```json
[
{
"id": 12345,
"relativePathToArticle": "./blog-posts/name-of-your-blog-post/name-of-your-blog-post.md"
}
]
```

#### What is `npm install` doing on first run?

It runs the script `tools/init` which sets up everything for you. In short, it:
## How can I find the ID of my blog post on dev.to?

- Configures RollupJS for the build, which creates the bundles
- Configures `package.json` (typings file, main file, etc)
- Renames main src and test files
Whether it's published or just a draft, you **have to create it** on dev.to directly. Unfortunately, dev.to does not display the ID of the blog post on the page. So once it's created, you can open your browser console and paste the following code to retrieve the blog post ID:
`$('div[data-article-id]').getAttribute('data-article-id')`

#### What if I don't want git-hooks, automatic releases or semantic-release?
## How do I configure every blog post individually?

Then you may want to:
A blog post has to have a [**front matter**](https://dev.to/p/editor_guide) header. You can find an example in this repository here: https://github.com/maxime1992/dev-to-git/blob/master/test/article.md

- Remove `commitmsg`, `postinstall` scripts from `package.json`. That will not use those git hooks to make sure you make a conventional commit
- Remove `npm run semantic-release` from `.travis.yml`
Simple and from there you have control over the following properties: `title`, `published`, `description`, `tags`, `series` and `canonical_url`.

#### What if I don't want to use coveralls or report my coverage?
## How do I add images to my blog posts?

Remove `npm run report-coverage` from `.travis.yml`
Instead of uploading them manually on dev.to, simply put them on your git repo and within the markdown use a link like the following example:

## Resources
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO/master/blog-posts/name-of-your-blog-post/assets/your-asset.png

- [Write a library using TypeScript library starter](https://dev.to/alexjoverm/write-a-library-using-typescript-library-starter) by [@alexjoverm](https://github.com/alexjoverm/)
- [📺 Create a TypeScript Library using typescript-library-starter](https://egghead.io/lessons/typescript-create-a-typescript-library-using-typescript-library-starter) by [@alexjoverm](https://github.com/alexjoverm/)
- [Introducing TypeScript Library Starter Lite](https://blog.tonysneed.com/2017/09/15/introducing-typescript-library-starter-lite/) by [@tonysneed](https://github.com/tonysneed)
Alternatively you can use a CDN like https://gitcdn.xyz where you'd just need to paste the previous URL and use the one that website gives you.

## Projects using `typescript-library-starter`
## How to setup CI for auto deploying the blog posts?

Here are some projects that use `typescript-library-starter`:
If you want to use Github and Travis, a `.travis.yml` file has been already prepared for you.

- [NOEL - A universal, human-centric, replayable event emitter](https://github.com/lifenautjoe/noel)
- [droppable - A library to give file dropping super-powers to any HTML element.](https://github.com/lifenautjoe/droppable)
- [redis-messaging-manager - Pubsub messaging library, using redis and rxjs](https://github.com/tomyitav/redis-messaging-manager)
First, you have to activate the repository on Travis: https://travis-ci.org/account/repositories

## Credits
Then, you have to create a token on your dev.to account: https://dev.to/settings/account and set an environment variable on Travis called `DEV_TO_GIT_TOKEN` that will have the newly created token as value.

Made with :heart: by [@alexjoverm](https://twitter.com/alexjoverm) and all these wonderful contributors ([emoji key](https://github.com/kentcdodds/all-contributors#emoji-key)):
# How can I manage my blog posts? Mono repo? One article per repo?

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| [<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6052309?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Ciro</b></sub>](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciro-ivan-agulló-guarinos-42109376)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=k1r0s "Code") [🔧](#tool-k1r0s "Tools") | [<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/947523?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Marius Schulz</b></sub>](https://blog.mariusschulz.com)<br />[📖](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=mariusschulz "Documentation") | [<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4152819?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Alexander Odell</b></sub>](https://github.com/alextrastero)<br />[📖](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=alextrastero "Documentation") | [<img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/8728882?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Ryan Ham</b></sub>](https://github.com/superamadeus)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=superamadeus "Code") | [<img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/8458838?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Chi</b></sub>](https://consiiii.me)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=ChinW "Code") [🔧](#tool-ChinW "Tools") [📖](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=ChinW "Documentation") | [<img src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/2856501?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Matt Mazzola</b></sub>](https://github.com/mattmazzola)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=mattmazzola "Code") [🔧](#tool-mattmazzola "Tools") | [<img src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/2664047?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Sergii Lischuk</b></sub>](http://leefrost.github.io)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=Leefrost "Code") |
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| [<img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/618922?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Steve Lee</b></sub>](http;//opendirective.com)<br />[🔧](#tool-SteveALee "Tools") | [<img src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/5127501?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Flavio Corpa</b></sub>](http://flaviocorpa.com)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=kutyel "Code") | [<img src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/22561997?v=3" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Dom</b></sub>](https://github.com/foreggs)<br />[🔧](#tool-foreggs "Tools") | [<img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/755?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Alex Coles</b></sub>](http://alexbcoles.com)<br />[📖](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=myabc "Documentation") | [<img src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/1093738?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>David Khourshid</b></sub>](https://github.com/davidkpiano)<br />[🔧](#tool-davidkpiano "Tools") | [<img src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/7225802?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Aarón García Hervás</b></sub>](https://aarongarciah.com)<br />[📖](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=aarongarciah "Documentation") | [<img src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/13683986?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Jonathan Hart</b></sub>](https://www.stuajnht.co.uk)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=stuajnht "Code") |
| [<img src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/13509204?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Sanjiv Lobo</b></sub>](https://github.com/Xndr7)<br />[📖](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=Xndr7 "Documentation") | [<img src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/7473800?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Stefan Aleksovski</b></sub>](https://github.com/sAleksovski)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=sAleksovski "Code") | [<img src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/8853426?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>dev.peerapong</b></sub>](https://github.com/devpeerapong)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=devpeerapong "Code") | [<img src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/22260722?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Aaron Groome</b></sub>](http://twitter.com/Racing5372)<br />[📖](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=Racing5372 "Documentation") | [<img src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/180963?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Aaron Reisman</b></sub>](https://github.com/lifeiscontent)<br />[💻](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=lifeiscontent "Code") | [<img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/32557482?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>kid-sk</b></sub>](https://github.com/kid-sk)<br />[📖](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=kid-sk "Documentation") | [<img src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/1503089?v=4" width="100px;"/><br /><sub><b>Andrea Gottardi</b></sub>](http://about.me/andreagot)<br />[📖](https://github.com/alexjoverm/typescript-library-starter/commits?author=AndreaGot "Documentation") |
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It's totally up to you and you could even adopt both solutions at the same time.

<!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-LIST:END -->
You can have a repo with a single blog post, for example if you're presenting a library it might make sense to have the article written within that repo.

This project follows the [all-contributors](https://github.com/kentcdodds/all-contributors) specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!
And if you prefer a mono repo approach with all your articles in the same repo, I've built a template repository to help you get started in a few minutes only: https://github.com/maxime1992/dev.to
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