[paiari]

Great recommendation!

I gave tsx a test and found it has a 3x slower boot than my favorite one, tsm[0] (and this is using the native binary at "./node_modules/bin/tsx").

Unfortunately, tsm has much lower download numbers compared to tsx, so I can already see me jumping ship to it due to traction.

I usually install tsm locally with "--save-dev" and use "node -r tsm --enable-source-maps <file>.ts" to run what I want. Here on a M1 Pro 32GB the difference between both is 0.17s for tsx and 0.06s for tsm.

I urge anyone that haven't tried yet to give tsm a chance. It works great with PM2 if you create a file like "server.pm2.js" and just add at the top of it "require('tsm')" followed by "require('server.ts')".

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsm