Automatically run npm install after initializing TypeScript project

[anthonychu]

Is it possible to run npm i after initializing a TS project (maybe do it for JS too for consistency)?

[wwlorey]

As of right now we do this for the user on debug. What is the reason you'd like to see npm i run for this case?

@fiveisprime what are your thoughts on this?

[ejizba]

We already do something similar for Python (pip install), so js/ts could be modeled after that. A few reasons I like this:

1. Users will get a 'clean' project as opposed to immediately seeing build errors from missing dependencies
2. Users might want to do some coding (with intellisense) before they debug, hence why they need npm i earlier

Only downside might be a delay while npm i runs, but with the right order of operations I think it could be tastefully done. Besides, they'll have to run npm i eventually no matter what.

[fiveisprime]

I love the idea of running it immediately after creating the project. It always bugs me that I have errors in the index.ts that opens from not having run npm install.