ts6to7

Codemod that migrates a TypeScript 5 or 6 project to TypeScript 7 (tsgo). No install needed — try it in 10 seconds:

npx ts6to7 --dry

TypeScript 7 is the native (Go) rewrite of the compiler. It removes every option that TypeScript 5 and 6 marked as deprecated and flips some defaults. Almost all of the removed options date back to the TS 5.0 deprecation list, so migrating straight from 5.x works the same as from 6.x — this tool rewrites your config files to the TS7 equivalents and prints a checklist of the things it cannot safely change for you.

Usage

# preview changes without writing anything
npx ts6to7 --dry

# apply to the current directory (monorepos: scans every package)
npx ts6to7

# apply to a specific directory
npx ts6to7 packages/app

Then:

npm install          # picks up typescript ^7.0.0
npx tsc --noEmit     # fix any remaining errors it reports

What it rewrites

tsconfig*.json (comments and formatting are preserved)

Before (TS 5/6)	After (TS7)
"target": "es3" / "es5"	"ES2015" — ES5 output was removed
"module": "amd" / "umd" / "system" / "none"	"ESNext"
"moduleResolution": "node" / "node10" / "classic"	"NodeNext" (Node-style projects) or "Bundler"
"importsNotUsedAsValues", "preserveValueImports"	"verbatimModuleSyntax": true
"baseUrl"	folded into "paths" (mappings become tsconfig-relative)
charset, keyofStringsOnly, out, noImplicitUseStrict, noStrictGenericChecks, suppressExcessPropertyErrors, suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors	removed
"ignoreDeprecations": "5.0" (the TS5 escape hatch)	removed — the options it silenced no longer exist
"prepend": true in project references	removed — output prepending is gone since TS6
strict unset	pinned to false to preserve behavior (TS7 defaults to true) — delete it when you're ready

package.json

• Bumps the typescript dependency to ^7.0.0.
• Warns about tools built on the TS compiler API (ts-node, ts-jest, ts-patch, ttypescript, ts-loader, fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin) — tsgo 7.0 does not expose the old JS compiler API (a new one ships in 7.1), so each of these needs a TS7-compatible version or a replacement.

What it can't do for you

• ES5 runtimes: if you still ship to ES5-only environments, transpile TS7's output with Babel/SWC.
• NodeNext strictness: relative ESM imports need explicit .js extensions; tsc will list them.
• verbatimModuleSyntax errors: type-only imports must become import type { ... }; editors can auto-fix these.
• Ambient types: TS7 no longer auto-includes every @types/* package — add "types": ["node", ...] explicitly if you relied on that.

Everything in this list is also printed as a Needs manual review item when the codemod runs, scoped to the file that triggered it.

Coming from TypeScript 5?

You don't need to stop at 6 first — run the codemod directly on a 5.x project. The transforms match on option values, not on your current compiler version: typescript: "^5.x" is bumped straight to ^7.0.0, TS5-era escape hatches like "ignoreDeprecations": "5.0" are cleaned up, and prepend in project references (already gone in TS6) is removed too.

Development

npm install
npm test

License

MIT