Setup Typescript with Node.js and Express in 5 Minutes

A simple guide for setting up Express.js with Typescript.

thoughtstile
2 min readMar 15, 2021

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Setting up a new project can be overwhelming with the amount of options available. So here is an Express server configured to use Typescript with some sensible defaults.

Included dependencies: nodemon (development), jest (testing), cors (middleware)…

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