Make setting up a tuned TypeScript project easy as 🥧

[JacksonKearl]

Currently it takes quite a bit of product knowledge to set up a TypeScript project and get all the nice features VS Code has to offer. Examples:

• What should my tsconfig.json include?
• How can I run my project?
• How can I get debugging to work?
• How should I run my build/watch?
• How can I set up tests?
• How should I lint/format the code?

And probably lots more...

This issue tracks making these questions easy to answer, the starting point for this will be developing start list contributions to instantiate template folders that have been tuned to make the development/build/test/debug process as seamless as possible.

[JacksonKearl]

cc @gcrev93, @DanielRosenwasser

[connor4312]

Something that would remove one toekick for generic TS setup (mainly in the 'debugging' step) would be if the compiler would create sourcemaps by default. I'm sure there's reasoning behind why it's not the case, but I couldn't find it and I think sourcemaps are desired in vastly more cases nowadays than they're undesired.

[digitarald]

Adding to the list of ideas:

• Detecting/installing Node/NPM & typescript package
• TS Playground