The environment
The runtime environment is one of the first things that we must think about before we can start developing a TypeScript application. Once we have compiled our TypeScript code into JavaScript, it can be executed in many different environments. While most of those environments will be part of a web browser such as Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Firefox, we might also want to be able to run our code on the server side or, in a desktop application, in environments such as Node.js, RingoJS, or Electron.
It is essential to keep in mind that there are some variables and objects available at runtime that are environment-specific. For example, we could create a library and access the document.layers variable. While document is part ...
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