This repo contains examples of sharing TypeScript code between projects.
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Of course you can share a TypeScript code library by publishing it (publicly or privately) to the npm registry and installing it using the npm command.
Likewise you can publish (publicly or privately) a TypeScript code library on GitHub and then install directly from there.
Often though we'll want to share TypeScript code between just a couple of projects or between backend and frontend, but we might not want to have to publish the library to a place where it can be installed by npm (because it seems like overkill to do that when working with a mono- or multi- repo).
Luckily we can share TypeScript code more directly using TypeScript project references.
This repo contains some examples of doing that.
The nodejs-example subdirectory shows the most basic example of sharing a TypeScript code library into TypeScript Node.js application using TypeScript project references. This is as simple as it gets.
The microservices-example subdirectory shows how to share a TypeScript code library into a Docker image. This is useful when we have an application composed of multiple TypeScript microservices and we'd like to share code libraries between them.
The microservices example uses ts-project-bundle to bundle the TypeScript project and its libraries ready to be included in the Docker image.
The microservices-and-front-example subdirectory shows how to share a TypeSript code library between a Docker image and a React frontend.
Stay tuned -- a live stream or blog post about this will be announce soon!