Setup TypeScript on the backend

.github/workflows/automated_tests.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
   api_unit_tests:
     name: API Unit Tests
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    container: node:16.15.0
+    container: node:20.17.0
     services:
       postgres:
         image: postgres:13

packages/api/.gitignore

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 src/jobs/locales/*/crop.json
 src/jobs/locales/*/*_old.json
 /exports/temp
-**/logs
+**/logs
+dist

packages/api/.knex/knexfile.js

@@ -15,14 +15,16 @@
 // import path from 'path';
 // import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
 
-const dotenv = require('dotenv');
-const path = require('path');
+import * as dotenv from 'dotenv';
+import path from 'node:path';
 
-dotenv.config({ path: path.resolve(__dirname, '../.env') });
+const dirname = import.meta.dirname;
 
-const root = path.resolve(__dirname, '../');
+dotenv.config({ path: path.resolve(dirname, '../.env') });
 
-module.exports = {
+const root = path.resolve(dirname, '../');
+
+export default {
   development: {
     client: 'postgresql',
     connection: {

packages/api/.knex/package.json

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
   "version": "1.0.0",
   "description": "",
   "main": "knexfile.js",
-  "type": "commonjs",
+  "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
   },
   "keywords": [],
   "author": "",
   "license": "ISC"
-}
+}

packages/api/eslint.config.js

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import globals from 'globals';
+import pluginJs from '@eslint/js';
+import tseslint from 'typescript-eslint';
+
+export default [
+  {
+    files: ['**/*.{js,mjs,cjs,ts}'],
+    rules: {
+      '@typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars': [
+        'error',
+        {
+          argsIgnorePattern: '^_',
+          varsIgnorePattern: '^_',
+          caughtErrorsIgnorePattern: '^_',
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+  },
+  { languageOptions: { globals: globals.browser } },
+  pluginJs.configs.recommended,
+  ...tseslint.configs.recommended,
+];

packages/api/lint-staged.config.js

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+export default {
+  '*.{js,ts}': ['eslint --quiet --fix'],
+  '*.{md,yml,json,js,ts}': 'prettier --write',
+  '*.{ts,js}': () => 'tsc -p tsconfig.json --noEmit',
+};