Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

Leveraging VS Code support for TypeScript

Now that the application structure is in place, let's see how we can build the JavaScript version of our code directly from VS Code.

To manually compile the TypeScript code, go to Terminal | Run Build Task...​ (Ctrl + Shift + B on Windows or cmd + Shift + B on macOS) and select tsc: build - tsconfig.json:

When executed, this will compile all the TypeScript code detected by tsc, based on the tsconfig.json configuration. By default, any .ts file in the project folder or subfolders will be picked up. Note that node_modules is obviously ignored by default. After the build has completed, you should find ...