Question: Why are es2015 and commonjs recommended

[zanminkian]

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es2015",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "strict": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
  }
}

I have a question about @tsconfig/recommended. Why are es2015 and commonjs recommended?

• 2015 is almost ten years ago.
• ESM is better than commonjs.

Furthermore, I don't know the use cases for @tsconfig/recommended. Is there any possible to deprecate it?

[orta]

Because those are the recommendations we made in tsc --init and @tsconfig/recommended is based on that, if TypeScript updates the initial template - then so can this base!

[zanminkian]

After running npx tsc --init, the target is es2016 now (ts 5.0+).

[orta]

Happy to have it upgraded then 👍🏻