Bingo for meetings–typescript making exe console–part 14

Bingo

Now it is the moment to have our first executable release– console application. First, we want to see if the js obtain by compilation of ts run under node ( it runs under  ts-node index.ts , but it runs under node.js ? ). And we see that , when I run node index.js it gives error “ could not find bingo-meeting-object/MeetingFactory”.

It is clear that, even if yean workspaces works well with node and typescript, the final result, index.js , is not prepared to run under node. Solving the problem is about compiling typescript with project references  . The documentation is at https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/project-references.html#composite  , and a sample project can be found at https://github.com/RyanCavanaugh/learn-a

It is composed by

1. having a tsconfig.json with

{

“compilerOptions”: {

“target”: “es5”,

“module”: “commonjs”,

“declaration”: true,

“declarationMap”: true,

“sourceMap”: true,

“strict”: false,

“composite”: true,

“esModuleInterop”: true

}

}

and extending in tsconfig.json

“extends”: “../tsconfig.settings.json”,

2. Compiling the projects with

tsc -b .

3. Creating index.ts with all classes exports

export * from “./MeetingsFactory”;

export * from “./Meeting”;

export * from “./Cards”;

export * from “./Participant”;

And now we can execute index.js with node index.jsinto

That means also the referenced projects are compiled into node_modules. That means that will not run without it.

We want now to create a console executable for the console project. That means something that compiles everything into an exe  – no matter windows , linux , or macos

We use for that https://www.npmjs.com/package/pkg

In the package.json of the console project we put

FROM node:8
WORKDIR /app
COPY . ./
RUN yarn
RUN yarn buildConsole
CMD tail -f /dev/null

docker build .. -f docker_build_console.txt -t bingo_build_console
docker run -d –rm –name bingo_build_console_container bingo_build_console
docker cp bingo_build_console_container:/app/bingo-meeting-console/bingo-meeting-console-win.exe .
docker cp bingo_build_console_container:/app/bingo-meeting-console/bingo-meeting-console-linux .
docker cp bingo_build_console_container:/app/bingo-meeting-console/bingo-meeting-console-macos .
docker container kill bingo_build_console_container