feat: Use tsx for script execution

.changeset/shiny-brooms-smash.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@inkathon/contracts': patch
+---
+
+Replace `ts-node` with `tsx` (https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx) for less-verbose TypeScript script execution.

README.md

@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ To replace the default `Greeter` contract or add a new one, you need to do the f
 
 ### 3. Custom Scripts
 
-Adding custom scripts is useful to interact with your contracts or test certain functionality. Therefore, just duplicate & reuse the `contracts/scripts/script.template.ts` file and run it via `pnpm run script <script-name>`.
+Adding custom scripts is useful to interact with your contracts or test certain functionality. Therefore, just duplicate & reuse the `contracts/scripts/script.template.ts` file and run it via `pnpm run script <script-name>`. This command will run the TypeScript file directly via [`tsx`](https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx).
 
-For general scripts the same environment variable initialization & configuration applies as described below in the [Deployment](#deployment) section (e.g. to change the target network).
+For general scripts, the same environment variable initialization & configuration applies as described below in the [Deployment](#deployment) section (e.g. to change the target network).
 
 ## The Stack 🥞
 

contracts/package.json

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
     "test": "bash test-all.sh",
     "build": "bash build-all.sh",
     "node": "substrate-contracts-node --dev --base-path ./.node-data",
-    "script:cwd": "node --no-warnings=ExperimentalWarning --loader ts-node/esm",
-    "script": "f() { node --no-warnings=ExperimentalWarning --loader ts-node/esm ./scripts/$1; }; f \"$@\"",
+    "script": "f() { tsx ./scripts/$1; }; f \"$@\"",
     "deploy": "pnpm run script deploy",
     "contracts-ui": "open https://contracts-ui.substrate.io/?rpc=ws://127.0.0.1:9944",
     "explorer-ui": "open https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/explorer?rpc=ws://127.0.0.1:9944",
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@
     "dotenv": "^16.3.1",
     "eslint": "^8.53.0",
     "eslint-config-prettier": "^9.0.0",
-    "ts-node": "^10.9.1",
+    "tsx": "^4.1.2",
     "typescript": "^5.2.2"
   }
 }