How to make a shell executable node file using TypeScript

Question

Normally in node files I just put

#!/usr/bin/env node  

at the top and make it executable to create a file that can be run from a bash terminal. However if I do that in a Typescript file, the compiler says "error TS1001: Unexpected character "#"" and refuses to compile it. So how can I make a shell executable node file with Typescript?

Answer 1

See https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/bin/tsc for an example. Basically have a dummy file without the .js extension and just require the actual .js file.

E.g. In file named tsc:

#!/usr/bin/env node require('./tsc.js')