A base TSConfig for working with Node 16.

Add the package to your "devDependencies":

npm install --save-dev @tsconfig/node16
yarn add --dev @tsconfig/node16

Add to your tsconfig.json:

"extends": "@tsconfig/node16/tsconfig.json"

The tsconfig.json:

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/tsconfig",
  "display": "Node 16",

  "compilerOptions": {
    "lib": ["es2021"],
    "module": "Node16",
    "target": "es2021",

    "strict": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
    "moduleResolution": "node"
  }
}

You can find the code here.