npm Bootsrap starting project for newbie

Question

I learned about Sass and Bootstrap, and now want to put it all together in a project using npm, but I’m completely lost.

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

$ npm init
// following the intructions//
$ npm install typescript
$ npm install bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha1
$ npm install sass

I ended up with the following package.json:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "bootstrap": "^5.3.0-alpha1",
    "sass": "^1.57.1",
    "typescript": "^4.9.4"
  },
  "name": "mytmpvpn-frontend",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "app.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "description": ""
}

That’s the package-lock.json

{
  "name": "mytmpvpn-frontend",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "lockfileVersion": 2,
  "requires": true,
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    "": {
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      "license": "ISC",
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        "sass": "^1.57.1",
        "typescript": "^4.9.4"
      },
      "devDependencies": {}
    },
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      "peer": true,
      "funding": {
        "type": "opencollective",
        "url": "https://opencollective.com/popperjs"
      }
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That’s the structure of my project folder:

$ npm ll
mytmpvpn-frontend@1.0.0
│ /home/user/local/dev/mytmpvpn-global/mytmpvpn-frontend
│ 
├── bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha1
│   
├── sass@1.57.1
│   
└── typescript@4.9.4

My questions are the following:

Where do I start editing my custom.scss file for customizing Boostrap?
How can I make sure that Sass is "wathcing" my custom.scss file and compiling in the correct .css file?
More generally, what’s the best practice in terms of architecture for a front-end project like that? Do I create a folder my-edits for example and then do other folders for html, scss, ts, etc.

npm Bootsrap starting project for newbie

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