How to use server with typescript

[jakehsiao]

The documentation on server is only about js.

First I just copied the code in documentation into "server.js", but it failed because games are defined in typescript and js cannot import typescript modules.

Then I change it to "server.ts", but now I don't know how to run this.

So how to use server with typescript?

[larry801]

You need to build typescript first. Please refer to this project for more detail. https://github.com/averycrespi/thinktank https://github.com/averycrespi/thinktank/blob/f72fd089edaf5bc04b6600995065589a383c4703/package.json#L44

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[delucis]

As @larry801 says, you need to compile the .ts file to plain JavaScript before running it with Node.

One other option is to use something like ts-node, which allows you to transpile and run from a single command (like ts-node ./server.ts). There are some limitations with ES modules, so you may need to tweak tsconfig.json to get this working correctly.