port the project to use TypeScript

[vinitkumar]

TypeScript comes with a lot of out of box support for Types, which would be especially beneficial writing
the backend code.

Take help of this: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter for project setup and config.
Uses basically the same core components so should be easy to do.

[vinitkumar]

@irsol What do you think about this one?

[irsol]

@vinitkumar I need to learn a little bit more about TypeScript first )))) I can try.

[vinitkumar]

@irsol No pressure. Let's treat this as an RnD project for now.

[vinitkumar]

Hey @irsol I am going to do this one. How are you doing these days? Got any time for open source work?

[irsol]

hey @vinitkumar I can help in a week. Could you split it to separate tickets?

[vinitkumar]

Hey Iryana, Thanks for replying back. I will be sure to make some tickets next week and we can pick it up from there. Thanks, Vinit Kumar

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[irsol]

@vinitkumar great!! I would be happy to contribute :))

[vinitkumar]

@irsol I started working on this. At first, porting the code to TypeScript. There is a work in progress PR here: #293