Package TypeScript CLIs with zeit/pkg

package-clis-using-gluegun-pkg.md

TypeScript & zeit/pkg

zeit/pkg needs to know which assets to include for TypeScript (tsconfig.json) and be able to resolve any dynamic requires.

This package.json shows how to configure zeit/pkg with gluegun.

In this example, the assets key is used for pkg to copy necessary files into the built binary and resolve the dynamic requires to find extensions and commands. TypeScript requires some basic type definitions (*.d.ts files) to compile and run which are included with the TypeScript compiler.

The assets option for pkg specifies to copy the specified files to a know path inside of the binary.

package.json

{
  "pkg": {
    "assets": [
      "./node_modules/@types",
      "./node_modules/typescript/lib/*.d.ts",
      "src/**/*.ts",
      "./tsconfig.json"
    ]
  }
}