API Design with Node.js V4

We now need to deploy our API so we can use it! We just need to consider a few things. There really aren't too many things we need to change right now to make sure we can deploy. It also depends on where you're deploying.

For us, the most imporant thing is making sure our repo is on Github and we create a build script to build our TypeScript.
In our package.json:

"scripts": {
  "build": "tsc -p tsconfig.json",
  "start": "node dist/index.js",
}

Render.com will use these scripts to build and start our server. Last thing is one final adjustment to our tsconfig.

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "sourceMap": true,
    "outDir": "./dist",
    "rootDir": "./src",
    "strict": false,
    "lib": ["esnext"],
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "declaration": true
  },
  "include": ["src/**/*.ts"]
}

We're ready to deploy!