It also covers when native stripping is insufficient and a full loader (tsx) is needed — paths, decorators, enum, or .tsx — plus setting up an ESM-only Node project, --watch mode, and node:test, and migrating a script/CLI off ts-node.

Out of scope: Bun runtime specifics belong to ts-runtime-bun; tsconfig configuration details belong to ts-config.

TypeScript on Node.js

Agent Workflow (MANDATORY)