In this chapter, we will use the same technologies as in Chapter 1, TypeScript Basics:
- TypeScript playground: This is a website at https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/, which allows us to play around with and understand the features in TypeScript without installing it.
- Node.js and npm: TypeScript and React are dependent on these. You can install them from https://nodejs.org/en/download/. If you already have these installed, make sure npm is at least version 5.2.
- TypeScript: This can be installed via npm, entering the following command in a terminal:
npm install -g typescript
- It is important that we are using TypeScript 3 in this chapter. You can check your TypeScript version by using the following command in a terminal:
tsc -v
If you need to upgrade to the latest version, you can run the following command:
npm install -g typescript@latest
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