new(all): Node.js v22 and ts-node.

.vscode/launch.json

@@ -5,25 +5,25 @@
       "type": "node",
       "request": "launch",
       "sourceMaps": true,
-      "name": "Debug Program",
-      "runtimeExecutable": "node",
+      "name": "Debug Program with Nodemon",
+      "runtimeExecutable": "npx",
+      "runtimeArgs": ["nodemon", "--exec", "tsx"], // Use nodemon with tsx
       "program": "${workspaceRoot}/boot.mjs",
       "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
       "env": {
         "NODE_ENV": "development",
-        "NODE_NO_WARNINGS":"1"
+        "NODE_NO_WARNINGS": "1"
       },
       "args": [
-        "--no-deprecation", 
-        "--loader ts-node/esm", 
-        "--require ${workspaceRoot}/suppress-node-warnings.cjs", 
+        "--require", "${workspaceRoot}/suppress-node-warnings.cjs"
       ],
       "skipFiles": [
         "node_modules/**/*.js",
         "<node_internals>/**"
       ],
       "outFiles": [
-        "${workspaceRoot}/dist/**/*.js"],
+        "${workspaceRoot}/dist/**/*.js"
+      ],
       "stopOnEntry": false,
       "console": "integratedTerminal"
     }

boot.mjs

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import fs from 'fs/promises';
 import os from 'node:os';
 import path from 'path';
 import { exec } from 'child_process';
-import pjson from './package.json' assert { type: 'json' };
-import {GBUtil} from './dist/src/util.js'
+import pjson from './package.json';
+import {GBUtil} from './src/util.js'
 
 // Displays version of Node JS being used at runtime and others attributes.
 
@@ -22,19 +22,7 @@ try {
     });
   };
   var processDist = async () => {
-    if (!await GBUtil.exists('dist')) {
-      console.log(`\n`);
-      console.log(`General Bots: Compiling...`);
-      exec(path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules/.bin/tsc'), async (err, stdout, stderr) => {
-        if (err) {
-          console.error(err);
-          return;
-        }
         await run();
-      });
-    } else {
-      await run();
-    }
   };
 
   // Installing modules if it has not been done yet.

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "botserver",
   "version": "5.0.0",
-  "type": "module",
   "description": "General Bot Community Edition open-core server.",
   "main": "./boot.mjs",
   "bugs": "https://github.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/issues",
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@
     "Alan Perdomo <alanperdomo@hotmail.com>"
   ],
   "engines": {
-    "node": "=20.17.0"
+    "node": "=22.9.0"
   },
   "license": "AGPL-3.0",
   "preferGlobal": true,
@@ -171,6 +170,7 @@
     "node-html-parser": "6.1.13",
     "node-nlp": "4.27.0",
     "node-tesseract-ocr": "2.2.1",
+    "nodemon": "^3.1.7",
     "npm": "10.8.3",
     "open": "10.1.0",
     "open-docxtemplater-image-module": "1.0.3",
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@
     "super-strong-password-generator-es": "2.0.2",
     "travis-deploy-once": "5.0.11",
     "tslint": "6.1.3",
+    "tsx": "^4.19.1",
     "vitest": "2.0.5"
   },
   "eslintConfig": {

packages/nodemon.json

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "watch": ["src", "packages"], 
+    "ext": "ts",
+    "exec": "tsx" 
+}

tsconfig.json

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
-    "strict": false,
+    "rootDir": "./",
+    "strict": true,
     "allowJs": true,
     "downlevelIteration": true,
     "baseUrl": "./",