Support all-typescript tooling with ts-node

README.md

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The full folder structure of this app is explained below:
 | **views**                | Views define how your app renders on the client. In this case we're using pug                 |
 | .env.example             | API keys, tokens, passwords, database URI. Clone this, but don't check it in to public repos. |
 | .travis.yml              | Used to configure Travis CI build                                                             |
-| .copyStaticAssets.js     | Build script that copies images, fonts, and JS libs to the dist folder                        |
+| .copyStaticAssets.ts     | Build script that copies images, fonts, and JS libs to the dist folder                        |
 | jest.config.js           | Used to configure Jest                                                                        |
 | package.json             | File that contains npm dependencies as well as [build scripts](#what-if-a-library-isnt-on-definitelytyped)                          |
 | tsconfig.json            | Config settings for compiling server code written in TypeScript                               |

copyStaticAssets.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+const shell = require("shelljs");
+
+shell.cp("-R", "src/public/js/lib", "dist/public/js/");
+shell.cp("-R", "src/public/fonts", "dist/public/");
+shell.cp("-R", "src/public/images", "dist/public/");

package.json

@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
     "build-sass": "node-sass src/public/css/main.scss dist/public/css/main.css",
     "watch-sass": "node-sass -w src/public/css/main.scss dist/public/css/main.css",
     "tslint": "tslint -c tslint.json -p tsconfig.json",
-    "copy-static-assets": "node copyStaticAssets.js"
+    "copy-static-assets": "ts-node copyStaticAssets.ts",
+    "debug": "npm run build && npm run watch-debug",
+    "serve-debug": "nodemon --inspect dist/server.js",
+    "watch-debug": "concurrently -k -p \"[{name}]\" -n \"Sass,TypeScript,Node\" -c \"yellow.bold,cyan.bold,green.bold\" \"npm run watch-sass\" \"npm run watch-ts\" \"npm run serve-debug\""
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "async": "^2.5.0",
@@ -69,6 +72,7 @@
     "@types/passport": "^0.3.3",
     "@types/passport-facebook": "^2.1.3",
     "@types/request": "^2.0.7",
+    "@types/shelljs": "^0.7.7",
     "@types/supertest": "^2.0.0",
     "concurrently": "^3.4.0",
     "jest": "^21.2.1",
@@ -77,6 +81,7 @@
     "shelljs": "^0.7.7",
     "supertest": "^2.0.1",
     "ts-jest": "^21.1.4",
+    "ts-node": "^4.0.2",
     "tslint": "^5.8.0",
     "typescript": "^2.4.0"
   }