Sometimes you just want something simple. A simple little script that will make your life easier. Maybe you just want to read a file, or hit an api, without dragging every man and his dog into it. But, you want to use the technologies you are use to, but without having to master a new library or framework.

In this blog I will build a bare-bones Node script that uses modern async Typescript.

Versions

With the node and typescript ecosystems in constant flux, you have to check that you are playing with the correct versions. Typescript: Async / Await is supported has been supported by TypeScript since version 1.7. With TypeScript 2.1 it was no longer required to target ES6. In the sample package.json the Typescript dependance is json "typescript": "^3.3.3333" The compilation target in the tsconfig.json is set to ES6, so we should be good with that.