TypeScript: Modern JavaScript Development

Prerequisites

Throughout this chapter, we will use some third-party tools, including some frameworks and automation tools. We will start by looking at each tool in detail. Before we get started, we need to use npm to create a package.json file in the folder that we are going to use to implement the examples in this chapter.

Let's create a new folder named app and run the npm init command inside it to generate a new package.json file:

npm init

Note

Refer to Chapter 2, Automating Your Development Workflow for additional help on npm.

Gulp

We will use the Gulp task runner to run some tasks necessary to execute our tests. We can install Gulp using npm:

npm install gulp -g

Note

If you are not familiar with task runners and continuous integration build servers, ...