All You Need to Know About Typescript

Setup

1. Setting up project
   npm init -y

2. Install typescript globally using npm
   npm i -g typescript

3. Verify by
   tsc --version

4. Create a typescript config file
   tsc --init --sourceMap --rootDir src --outDir dist

5. Create src folder with ts file
   console.log(“hello”)

6. Create a launch.json file in vscode
   change src and ts to dist and js

7. Add a watcher

   1. Install typescript as dev dependency (locally)
      npm i --save-dev typescript

8. Create a Run Task for TS to watch

9. Create a Build Task for TS to build

10. Click run button to run code