Configure your project to generate and commit typescript types

[DanRibbens]

Payload includes a way to generate typescript types and you can take it one step further by adding a pre-commit hook to your git workflow to call the generate command and also add those changes to the commit!

This is useful if you find yourself working on a typescript project and forgetting to generate types before commiting code changes.

Step 1
yarn add --dev pre-commit

Step 2
Update your package.json to run your script that calls your payload generate:types script:
"pre-commit": ["generate:types"]

Step 3
edit .git/hooks/pre-commit to add git update-index --add payload-types.ts as below:

#!/bin/bash
./node_modules/pre-commit/hook
git update-index --add payload-types.ts
RESULT=$?
[ $RESULT -ne 0 ] && exit 1
exit 0

*Note: If you've customized your typescript output replace "payload-types.ts" with your destination instead or it will not be committed.