Basic typescript express sttartup project

.gitignore

# See http://help.github.com/ignore-files/ for more about ignoring files.

# compiled output
/dist
/tmp
/out-tsc
# Only exists if Bazel was run
/bazel-out

# dependencies
/node_modules

# profiling files
chrome-profiler-events*.json

# IDEs and editors
/.idea
.project
.classpath
.c9/
*.launch
.settings/
*.sublime-workspace

# IDE - VSCode
.vscode/*
!.vscode/settings.json
!.vscode/tasks.json
!.vscode/launch.json
!.vscode/extensions.json
.history/*

# misc
/.sass-cache
/connect.lock
/coverage
/libpeerconnection.log
npm-debug.log
yarn-error.log
testem.log
/typings

# System Files
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db

package.json

{
  "name": "whatever",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "dev-node": "ts-node-dev  src/server/"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "^4.17.1",
    "typescript": "^4.4.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/express": "^4.17.13",
    "ts-node-dev": "^1.1.8"
  }
}

tsconfig.json

/* To learn more about this file see: https://angular.io/config/tsconfig. */
{
    "compileOnSave": false,
    "compilerOptions": {
        "baseUrl": "./",
        "outDir": "./dist/server",
        "module": "commonjs",
        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
        "strict": true,
        "noImplicitReturns": true,
        "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
        "sourceMap": true,
        "declaration": false,
        "downlevelIteration": true,
        "experimentalDecorators": true,
        "moduleResolution": "node",
        "importHelpers": true,
        "target": "es2017",
        "lib": [
            "es2018",
            "dom"
        ]
    },
    "include": [
        "src/server/index.ts"
    ]
}