Polymer TypeScript Starter

Getting Started With The Project

To launch the application you need to install the dependencies first with npm install.

All the commands that developers will directly run are exposed as npm scripts. There are five of them:

1. npm start - starts the development Web server that watches for the changes in the project. As soon as a change is made, it performs the required build steps (e.g. the TypeScript compilation) and then refreshes all currently opened pages in the browsers with the application.

2. npm run lint - runs polylint one the project's code. In the future versions it'll also run tslint.

3. npm run test - runs web-component-tester for the project.

4. npm run build - prepares the production version of the application. It creates a new directory dist and puts there all files that need to be deployed. Usually you want to run it on your continuous integration server.

5. npm run serve:dist - this command internally executes npm run build and then additionally launches a static Web server (it supports sending gzipped files as well) in the dist directory. Use this command when you are done with implementing a feature but before pushing the changes to the central repository. It gives you a chance to take a look at your application in the environment close to production.