From 4f7b48df861ca5638e2c73de0f88c05b2279fd37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mitch Lloyd <mitch.lloyd@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 00:26:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] feat(aws-cdk): use ts-node for TypeScript templates (#2527)

Update sample-app with ts-node in a backwards compatible way (`npm run build` still compiles the code).

Closes #1532
---
 .../aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/typescript/cdk.template.json | 2 +-
 .../lib/init-templates/app/typescript/package.template.json     | 1 +
 .../lib/init-templates/sample-app/typescript/cdk.template.json  | 2 +-
 .../init-templates/sample-app/typescript/package.template.json  | 1 +
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/typescript/cdk.template.json b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/typescript/cdk.template.json
index ca1d40ed37e2d..8c81ca271b7d6 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/typescript/cdk.template.json
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/typescript/cdk.template.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  "app": "node bin/%name%.js"
+  "app": "./node_modules/.bin/ts-node bin/%name%.ts"
 }
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/typescript/package.template.json b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/typescript/package.template.json
index 14fe0f1362f82..5219b55bad307 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/typescript/package.template.json
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/typescript/package.template.json
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "8.10.45",
     "typescript": "^3.3.3333",
+    "ts-node": "^8.1.0",
     "aws-cdk": "^%cdk-version%"
   },
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/sample-app/typescript/cdk.template.json b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/sample-app/typescript/cdk.template.json
index ca1d40ed37e2d..8c81ca271b7d6 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/sample-app/typescript/cdk.template.json
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/sample-app/typescript/cdk.template.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  "app": "node bin/%name%.js"
+  "app": "./node_modules/.bin/ts-node bin/%name%.ts"
 }
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/sample-app/typescript/package.template.json b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/sample-app/typescript/package.template.json
index c9a8e03200692..b2014a440b9f8 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/sample-app/typescript/package.template.json
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/sample-app/typescript/package.template.json
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "8.10.45",
     "typescript": "^3.3.3333",
+    "ts-node": "^8.1.0",
     "aws-cdk": "^%cdk-version%"
   },
   "dependencies": {