Once we’ve created our first TypeScript file, we need to convert it to JavaScript if we want our browsers (or Node.JS) to run it.

There are several online sandbox tools to let you write code, but they won’t convert it to JavaScript, at least none that I’ve found yet.

To set it up, you will need to execute tsc, a command which actually transpiles your TypeScript into JavaScript.

However, instead of having to work within the command-line tools, you can also configure Visual Studio Code. The extension(s) you might use is different from your TypeScript compiler. So you have to configure VSC correctly. Here is a link for how to do that: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/typescript/typescript-compiling

Compiling our TypeScript was originally found on Access 2 Learn

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Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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