TypeScript IDEs

The purpose of this section of the chapter is to get you up and running with a TypeScript environment so that you can edit, compile, run, and debug your TypeScript code. TypeScript has been released as an open source project, and includes both a Windows variant, as well as a Node variant. This means that the compiler will run on Windows, Linux, macOS, and any other operating system that supports Node. On Windows environments, we can either install Visual Studio, which will register tsc.exe (TypeScript compiler) in our c:\Program Files directory, or we can use Node. On Linux and macOS environments, we will need to use Node.

In this section, we will be looking at the following IDEs:

• Node-based compilation
• Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio 2017
• WebStorm
• Using Grunt