Last year, I wrote a blog post on setting up a Node.js backend project with TypeScript support. This seemed like a good reference for me at that time and also I could share it with anyone else who may find it helpful. You can read the initial post here: https://cahenkorah.vercel.app/posts/automating-my-nodejs-set...
I built a CLI tool - Notsc (https://www.npmjs.com/package/notsc), over the weekend to automate that whole process and make it simpler. It scaffolds a ready-to-go Node.js + TypeScript API project with optional support for: Database setup, Swagger/OpenAPI docs, Redis, Jest testing, Docker etc. Already at 197+ downloads on NPM.
You can install it globally with: npm install -g notsc
and then run it and follow the prompts that follow: notsc
It's open source and I'd welcome feedback, ideas, and contributions. I also wrote a little blog post on why I built this and how it can be useful, you can read that too here: https://cahenkorah.vercel.app/posts/automating-my-nodejs-set...
NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/notsc GITHUB: https://github.com/cedricahenkorah/notsc BLOG: https://cahenkorah.vercel.app/