add TypeScript boilerplate

[yuichkun]

Now that node.script accepts command line parameters, I've come to my mind that I could pass in ts-node/register to use TypeScript with minimal effort and here's a working example!

By the way, do you guys have the definition file (@types/max-api.d.ts kind of thing) of Max API published somewhere? If not, I would really appreciate it if you do!

[geofholbrook]

Don't know if the OP is still keen on this 3 years later ... but I've gotten @types/max-api published now, through the DefinitelyTyped project. Quite similar to the declaration file that's in your boilerplate: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/max-api.

[fde31]

There is a pending PR to update the type definitions to the recent version, which also fixes some of the parameter signature issues and exports maxAPI as the default namespace. Once that is merged and published, maybe you'd like to update your boilerplate @yuichkun and I'd be happy to merge the PR.

[yuichkun]

Hi @geofholbrook @fde31

Thank you guys for publishing/updating the type definitions.
I'd love to update my boilerplate once the pending PR is merged, and also since the boilerplate was created a good few years ago, so I'll take this chance to update it with more modern config/dependencies, too 👍

By the way, can I have the URL for the pending PR, @fde31 ?

[fde31]

@yuichkun @types/max-api v2.0.0 are now published on NPM (via this PR on DefinitelyTyped).

There is a very basic TS example in n4m-examples but if u have the motivation and time to update your boilerplate I'm that would be appreciated by others and provide a great help for people to get started as well.

[geofholbrook]

@fde31 I noticed something about @types/[email protected] after I approved it ... it is not possible to import selected parts of the namespace, as in import { addHandler, outlet, post } from 'max-api'; ... my workaround is import maxAPI from 'max-api'; const { addHandler, outlet, post } = maxAPI;, but it seems kind of too bad that the definitions would disallow something that works fine in runtime.

[geofholbrook]

Just a thought: I've been think that a npx tool to setup new n4m projects would be nice, kind of in the same vein as create-react-app ... might help more people get into it. And similarly we could have an option to set up all the typescript parts, like create-n4m-app --template typescript.

May or may not related to the PR, but it could be hosted in this repo at least.

[fibonacid]

I have created a PR request for this:
#10