Here we will install the ts-node package via npm which provides a range of functionality for TypeScript projects in a local environment.

Webstorm comes with native TypeScript support but we’ll be taking things a step further. The -g flag - meaning “global” instructs the install to update the global Node.js npm version vs. The latest version can always be obtained via npm install -g in the console. If Node.js is installed, npm install/version can be confirmed by running npm -version. Regarding assumption #2, npm is the package manager for Node.js and is now a part of the standard Node.js installation. This article makes several assumptions about programming environments, available software, and pre-existing familiarity. We’ll glaze past the rest of the history for now and get to configuring TypeScript with Webstorm. TypeScript also compiles to run anywhere JavaScript will run.

There are, however, many cases where the TypeScript compiler may be unhappy. This characteristic means that all JavaScript code is valid TypeScript code - at least syntactically. Enums, Static typing, and disabling implicit type coercions are a few of the features TypeScript offers.īack to the “Superset of JavaScript” description - while cliché, it’s important to understand. It can also be described as sensibility for JavaScript in that it allows developers to use common software constructs within an otherwise casual language. The cliché way of introducing TypeScript is “as a superset of JavaScript” which isn’t really descriptive as to why one would want to use it. In this article, we’ll walk through the steps to configure a basic TypeScript project in Webstorm that will transpile to a single JavaScript file suitable for browser-based applications. Webstorm offers native support for Typescript but a little added configuration goes far. Webstorm is Jetbrains’ dedicated web-language IDE geared to specifically support languages like HTML, CSS, SASS/SCSS, and Javascript. 11.3 Step 8.c: Run Webpack via Webstorm.11 Step 8: Configure Webpack for Browser Support.

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