Make a bin available

[pocesar]

Putting it in scripts section of package.json to update the tsconfig.json (mainly interested in this because of filesGlob)

right now I'm using node.repl to do this

[MicahZoltu]

Can you go into more detail on what you mean by, make a bin available? I'm having trouble understanding exactly what it is you are looking for with this request.

Can you show what you are doing with node.repl to achieve your goals currently?

[pocesar]

filesGlob isn't 'natively' supported by tsc currently. tsconfig, atomscript, sublime tsscript support it. When working outside a text editor that doesn't have either of those plugins installed, the files inside tsconfig.json never gets updated.

I'm using node.repl to emulate a command line derived from tsconfig:

> var tsconfig = require('tsconfig');
undefined
> var fs = require('fs');
undefined
> fs.writeFileSync('tsconfig.json', JSON.stringify(tsconfig.getProjectSync('.').project));
undefined

by having it install to the .bin folder, I could place it in package.json as:

{
   "scripts": {
      "tsconfig": "tsconfig --save"  
   }
}

type npm tsconfig and it would update the tsconfig.json file for me

[MicahZoltu]

While I don't believe this would be hard to do, if your only use case is for tsconfig --save then I am not sure how much work it would be worth since (hopefully) file pattern matching will be added to TSC soon: microsoft/TypeScript#3232

[blakeembrey]

This module no longer expands filesGlob (as of 4.0) and includes will be an official option in 2.0. I never condoned the use filesGlob personally, but do know people relied on it. However, staying in sync with official TypeScript releases and other clients is more important.