René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"tsc --init update 2024","articleBody":"### Acknowledgement\r\n\r\n- [X] I acknowledge that issues using this template may be closed without further explanation at the maintainer's discretion.\r\n\r\n### Comment\r\n\r\nFollowing up from #58417\r\n\r\nNote: This is only for *argumentless* `tsc --init`. We know that it's physically possible to write text after `--init` and that text could do something, but that's a separate issue. Since `tsc --init` should do *something*, this issue is only about what that something is.\r\n\r\nGeneral consensus from the design meeting + external discussion:\r\n * No one likes the huge wall of text\r\n * Not many people like the commented-out options, and certainly not the \"terrible idea\" commented-out options\r\n * `\"module\": \"commonjs\"` is a hard no\r\n\r\nOther live issues:\r\n * #39354 - set `types` to `[]` - yes\r\n * #49206, #39308 - increase default target - also yes\r\n * #39311 - set `udfcf` - I would argue moot by now since we should set the target high enough that this doesn't matter\r\n * #51207 - consult `package.json` - it's not obvious that your `package.json` is configured yet at the time you run `tsc --init`, this seems marginal\r\n\r\nOther things we didn't get to:\r\n * `rootDir`, `outDir`: These are generally a good idea; no one likes the default side-by-side JS emit buuut there aren't strictly universal conventions here\r\n\r\nProposed new output:\r\n```jsonc\r\n{\r\n    // For more info, see https://aka.ms/tsconfig\r\n    // Or use the tsc-init wizard: https://aka.ms/tsc-init\r\n    \"compilerOptions\": {\r\n        \"target\": \"es2022\",\r\n        \"module\": \"nodenext\",\r\n        \"rootDir\": \"./src\",\r\n        \"outDir\": \"./dist\",\r\n\r\n        // For nodejs, add \"node\" to this array,\r\n        // and remove \"dom\" from \"lib\"\r\n        \"types\": [],\r\n        \"lib\": [\"dom\", \"es2022\"],\r\n\r\n        // Other outputs\r\n        \"sourceMap\": true,\r\n        // \"declaration: true,\r\n\r\n        // Typechecking options\r\n        \"noUncheckedIndexedAccess\": true,\r\n        \"exactOptionalPropertyTypes\": true,\r\n\r\n        // Style options\r\n        // \"noImplicitReturns\": true,\r\n        // \"noImplicitOverride\": true,\r\n        // \"noUnusedLocals\": true,\r\n        // \"noUnusedParameters\": true,\r\n        // \"noFallthroughCasesInSwitch\": true,\r\n        // \"noPropertyAccessFromIndexSignature\": true,\r\n\r\n        // We recommend all of these options\r\n        \"verbatimModuleSyntax\": true,\r\n        \"isolatedModules\": true,\r\n        \"moduleDetection\": \"force\",\r\n        \"skipLibCheck\": true,\r\n        \"strict\": true\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n```\r\nI tried to order this from \"most likely to edit\" to \"least likely to edit\"","author":{"url":"https://github.com/RyanCavanaugh","@type":"Person","name":"RyanCavanaugh"},"datePublished":"2024-05-02T23:01:59.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":40},"url":"https://github.com/58420/TypeScript/issues/58420"}