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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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The TypeScript compiler

Now that we have learned how to use npm, we can install TypeScript using the following command:

    npm install typescript -g

The TypeScript compiler will then become available in our CLI as a command named tsc. We can check the version of TypeScript installed in our machine using the following command:

    tsc -v  

The TypeScript compiler accepts many more options. For example, we can use the --target or -t option to select which version of JavaScript we would like to target as the compilation output:

    tsc --target es6  

Alternatively, we can create a tsconfig.json file to set the desired compilation settings. We can also use the TypeScript compiler to autogenerate a tsconfig.json file with default settings using the following ...

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