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September 25, 2023 03:45
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Run a .ts extension file on a browser (Was wondering how vite was able to run a ts file on a browser, in memory transpilation, browser only cares for the header that tells file type.)
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var http = require("http"); | |
var { readFileSync } = require("fs"); | |
var path = require("path"); | |
//create a server object: | |
http | |
.createServer(function (req, res) { | |
if (req.method === "GET" && req.url == "/") { | |
const file = readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, "/index.html")); | |
res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "text/html" }); | |
res.write(file); //write a response to the client | |
res.end(); | |
} | |
if (req.method === "GET" && req.url == "/src/index.ts") { | |
console.log("DOne"); | |
const esbuild = require("esbuild"); | |
const inputFileName = "src/index.ts"; // Your ts file | |
esbuild | |
.build({ | |
entryPoints: [inputFileName], | |
bundle: true, // Bundle the output into a single file | |
write: false | |
}) | |
.then((result) => { | |
res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "application/javascript" }); // This causes the browser to treat it as JS | |
console.log("Transpilation completed successfully!", result.outputFiles[0].text); | |
res.write(result.outputFiles[0].text); | |
res.end(); | |
}) | |
.catch((error) => { | |
console.error("Error during transpilation:", error); | |
}); | |
} | |
}) | |
.listen(8080, () => console.log("8080")); //the server object listens on port 8080 |
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