Re-write in Typescript

[MartinsOnuoha]

• The idea is to help improve DX (developer experience) when contributing to the project

[TimAagaard]

I was thinking we could do a rewrite from scratch and call it v1.0

Make it TypeScript, get rid of all the no-longer maintained dependencies (npm lists a bunch on a fresh install), aggregate the data into SQL tables in something like SQLite (it's stored as a local file, so no external DB server) with an ORM like Sequelize that way we could leverage the speedy lookups and filtering of a database (since it will be using B-Trees) instead of filtering JSONs.

would be happy to contrib if you made a fresh new long-term release branch and set up your CI/CD stuff and the hbs stuff doing the front-end portion of the server.

[MartinsOnuoha]

Hey Tim, yes it absolutely makes sense to aggregate the data into SQL tables in something. and a local file option like SQlite would work since the data wouldn't be growing.

I'll do the initial setup to transition to TS and let you know