@toreda/typescript-cli-starter

Command line (CLI) app template

Command Line Interface (CLI) app example using TypeScript. Produces a self-contained bundle file which can be installed and execute via command line.

 

Template Features

• Unit tests with Jest.
• TypeScript adds additional syntax to JavaScript to support a tighter integration with your editor. Catch errors early in your editor.
• TypeScript understands JavaScript and uses type inference to give you great tooling without additional code.

 

Speedy Web Compiler (SWC)

WC is an extensible Rust-based platform for the next generation of fast developer tools. It's used by tools like Next.js, Parcel, and Deno, as well as companies like Vercel, ByteDance, Tencent, Shopify, and more.

Features

• Fast
  • SWC is 20x faster than Babel on a single thread and 70x faster on four cores.

 

Gulp

A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow

Features

• Flexible
  • Using code over configuration, utilize all of JavaScript to create your gulpfile—where tasks can be written using your own code or chained single purpose plugins.
• Composable
  • Write individual, focused tasks and compose them into larger operations, providing you with speed and accuracy while reducing repetition.
• Efficient
  • By using gulp streams, you can apply many transformations to your files while in memory before anything is written to the disk—significantly speeding up your build process.

 

ESLint

Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code

Leverage gulp and the flexibility of JavaScript to automate slow, repetitive workflows and compose them into efficient build pipelines.

Features

• Find Problems
  • ESLint statically analyzes your code to quickly find problems. ESLint is built into most text editors and you can run ESLint as part of your continuous integration pipeline.
• Fix Automatically
  • Many problems ESLint finds can be automatically fixed. ESLint fixes are syntax-aware so you won't experience errors introduced by traditional find-and-replace algorithms.

 

Jest

Jest is a delightful JavaScript Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity..

Features

• Zero Config
  • Jest aims to work out of the box, config free, on most JavaScript projects.
• Isolated
  • Tests are parallelized by running them in their own processes to maximize performance.
• Snapshots
  • Make tests which keep track of large objects with ease. Snapshots live either alongside your tests, or embedded inline.
• Great API
  • From it to expect - Jest has the entire toolkit in one place. Well documented, well maintained, well good.

 

Webpack

Static module bundler for modern JavaScript applications.

Features

• Self Contained Bundles

 

Yarn

We recommend yarn to manage project packages. Although you can use npm install to add packages, pick either yarn or npm to install/manage packages, and use only that command.

Why choose one? yarn creates yarn.lock at the project root, while npm creates package-lock.json. These files separately and independently track specific package versions manages specific package versions. If both files exist, package versions in the project will be inconsistent.

Package Data (package.json)

Vulnerabilities

What are resolutions?

Yarn resolutions allow per-package version overrides. All dependencies use the specified package version.

Why are there packages in the resolutions field?

The resolutions section includes several packages flagged by Github as security vulnerabilities.

 

dependencies (package.json)

@toreda/log

TypeScript logger with small footprint & configurable transports.

Uses

• gulpfile.ts
• @toreda/build-tools
• @toreda/strong-types

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yargs

Parse command-line arguments.

 

devDependencies (package.json)

Packages used only during development should be placed indevDependencies.

Install packages with the --dev flag with yarn or the --save-dev flag with NPM to install a package directly into devDependencies.

With yarn:

yarn install @toreda/types --dev

With NPM

npm install @toreda/types --save-dev

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@swc/core

Core package for the SWC (Speedy Web Compiler). The super-fast TypeScript & JavaScript compiler written in Rust. Significantly

Uses

• gulpfile.ts
• All .spec.ts test files where babel was previously used.

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@swc/jest

SWC Plugin enabling Jest to use SWC to transform files instead of Babel.

Uses

• Anytime yarn test is run.
• Used as transform in jest.config.js.
• All .spec.ts test files where babel was previously used.

eslint

JavaScript & TypeScript linter which flags inconsistent formatting and styles.

Uses

• gulpfile.ts
• Running command yarn lint or yarn eslint

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eslint-config-prettier

Turns off all rules that are unnecessary or might conflict with [Prettier].

Uses

• gulpfile.ts
• Running command yarn lint or yarn eslint

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eslint-plugin-prettier

Runs Prettier as an ESLint rule and reports differences as individual ESLint issues.

Uses

• gulpfile.ts
• Running command yarn lint or yarn eslint

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fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin

Speeds up TypeScript type checking and ESLint linting (by moving each to a separate process)

Uses

• gulpfile.ts
• webpack.config.ts

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gulp

Streaming task-based build system.

Uses

• gulpfile.ts
• Running command yarn build or yarn gulp

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@toreda/build-tools

Build scripts and Gulp pipelines for TypeScript project. Capable of building NPM packages, libraries, and command line apps. Acts as a Gulp wrapper, providing a single consistent build pipeline used by @toreda NPM projects.

Note: While this package can make your life easier it's not required for this package, but it's used in the default setup.

Uses

• gulpfile.ts

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@toreda/eslint-config

Toreda's TypeScript ESLint configuration and ruleset for ESLint.

While standard for Toreda TypeScript projects, you can define any ruleset you'd like.

Change Toreda Ruleset Edit .eslintrc.js and remove extends, or change the extends value to change the ESLint ruleset used.

extends: ['@toreda/eslint-config'],

Override Individual Rules Add Individual rules to rules: {...} in .eslintrc.js to change the behavior of that rule only. The rule value set overrides both the default value and the Toreda value for that rule.

Uses

• package.json

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@toreda/prettier-config

Ruleset config to enforce Toreda's organization-wide formatting standard. Any prettier ruleset can be used in your project and this is not required for your own projects.

If you removed also remove this key from package.json:

  "prettier": "@toreda/prettier-config",

Uses

• package.json

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@toreda/types

Basic and common type definitions used in @toreda projects.

Use

• @toreda/build-tools

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@types/gulp

Type definitions for Gulp.

Uses

• gulpfile.ts

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@types/node

Type definitions for Node functions.

Uses

• Helpful types on import in any project .ts file.

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@types/webpack

Type definitions for webpack. Package version generally always match the webpack package version to eliminate bugs and API discrepancies.

Uses

• webpack.config.ts

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@types/webpack-node-externals

Type definitions for the webpack-node-externals webpack plugin. Provides typescript type hints for plugin configuration types.

Uses

• webpack.config.ts

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@types/yargs

Adds type support for yargs function calls.

If you encounter build errors after installing @types/yargs it likely means code somewhere in the project did not respect yargs types.

Each package export without type definitions becomes an implicit any type. This behavior mimics vanilla JavaScript and effectively disables type checking (this is bad).

Uses

• src/cli.ts

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webpack

Type definitions for webpack.

Uses

• webpack.config.ts

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webpack-node-externals

Adds support for defining external packages to use during build that are not included in bundle. Extremely useful when deploying bundles to platforms with libraries available. For example, AWS Lambda functions require aws-sdk during build and development, but the Lambda run-time environment makes aws-sdk to all Lambda functions. Using webpack-node-externals makes it easy to rely on aws-sdk during the build without adding redundant and unused code to the final bundle.

Excluding run-time packages is different than excluding devDependencies which may only used during build & bundling.

Uses

• webpack.config.ts

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jest

Intuitive testing framework with integrated code coverage and report formatting.

Why include this package? Jest is included in the project's package.json as a devDependency, rather than relying on the jest command being available for a couple important reasons.

Using Jest from package.json has a few benefits:

• Package guaranteed available. No guessing whether it's installed or what version is installed.
• The project controls the jest version.
• TypeScript often requires additional types or packages to work with popular NPM packages. Jest + TypeScript currently needs ts-node and @types/jest (among others). Keeping package versions & package updates synchronized is tough task without surprise updates breaking testing.

Uses

• All .spec.ts test files in ./tests.

Docs

• Getting Started with Jest

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jest-sonar-reporter

Intuitive testing framework with integrated code coverage and report formatting.

Why include this package? Processes jest execution results and sends to a SonarQube instance. Target SonarQube server details set in sonar-project.properties

Uses

• All .spec.ts test files in ./tests.

Docs

• Getting Started with Jest
• jest-sonar-reporter Github

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terser-webpack-plugin

Uglify replacement focused on better speed and better performance.

Uses

• All .spec.ts files in tests/

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ts-node

Run node scripts directly from the command line without transpiling.

Docs

• Configuring TS Node
• How to run TypeScript Scripts with ts-node

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typescript

TypeScript package support with tsconfig.json.

Uses

• Running yarn build
• Running webpack.
• Using ts-loader

 

Client Lifecycle

Lifecycle methods are like checkpoints that execute logic at each step in the client's lifecycle flow.

Init Phase

Init

The async init methods are called in the following order:

1. clientWillInit

2. clientOnInit

3. clientDidInit

Load Phase

Legal

License

MIT © Toreda, Inc.

 

Copyright

Copyright © 2019 - 2025 Toreda, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 

Website

Visit Toreda's official company website at www.toreda.com