What is tsmean?
Getting off the ground with a new webapp isn't easy. Developing the core of an application can take weeks of time. There's a backend and a frontend to be built, each requiring a lot of work. You'll need a sign up and login, a landing page, resource management, a database and so on. Moreover, if you don't do things properly from the beginning, you'll move yourself into a corner where it's hard to get out of. Too many projects that we have seen don't start out modular or with proper architectural foundations, such that it gets harder and harder to maintain over time.
Tsmean provides a fully modular and scalable starter kit for your next web-application, fully written in TypeScript. We carefully choose the most proven and promising state-of-the-art technologies for scalable full stack TypeScript web applications. For us, this is a modification of the MEAN stack. Traditionally, the MEAN stack has been MongoDB + ExpressJS + AngularJS (the old one) + Node.JS, everything written in JavaScript. However, AngularJS has been deprecated and we're not really fans of MongoDB for WebApps. Also, backends purely written in Express + Node.JS tend to get messy. So the starter uses a modification of the MEAN stack with improved and adjusted technological choices, that make for a maintainable and scalable webapp, fully written in TypeScript. Here's the stack:
So it's still kind of MEAN: Instead of MongoDB we offer the choice to use MySQL, instead of bare-bones ExpressJS + Node.JS we use the NestJS framework (which is built on Express and Node) and instead of the old AngularJS of course we use the new Angular framework.
Note that tsmean is neither a framework nor a library. Tsmean is a starter kit / boilerplate / seed. The difference is that for a framework or library, you don't modify the core. For this starter kit however, you can modify the core. You just download it once and don't have to be compatible with any changes we make in the future. Of course, the starter-kit is going to get better over time, but hopefully it has already spurred your development and you don't need it anymore anyways.
Current project stage
The project is currently in a pre-alpha stage, which means that only a glimpse of it’s full potential is available today. You could head over to github and download the pre-alpha release now. However, we'd rather recommend you to do one of the following:
Choose alpha-testing if you're the kind of guy or gal that can't wait to get their fingers on something new and likes to actively contribute to a project with feedback. You'll benefit from tight guidance and support in return. Choose to get notified on release, if you just want to get informed once the next public release is out. Either way you'll make sure to profit from all of our work going into the starter kit in the coming months!
Contact
All feedback is welcome. Just drop us a mail at contact@tsmean.com! It's also a fabulous idea to stay connected, since we release regular updates for the starter. Subscribe below!