How to run Typescript files on Server in background?

Question

I have a NodeJS application which has only typescript files in it, no js files. I want to run in on my server in the background.

How can I archive that?

I tried using the npm package called forever but it only works with js files as it doesn't understand the typescript code.

Answer 1

You could use forever in combination with ts-node.

Here is a link to the npm package ts-node

I would suggest using the following command:

forever start -v -c ts-node app.ts

Where -v/--verbose is for turning on the verbose messages from Forever.

And -c is the COMMAND to execute which is default is node