Summary

In this chapter, you have discovered the current frontend development landscape and seen why/where TypeScript comes into the picture.

We have illustrated the issues with vanilla JavaScript and shown how TypeScript can help to improve code quality.

We have presented the different tools that you'll use on a day-to-day basis, including how to install them. Now, you know about VS Code, Node.js, npm, Git, and Git BASH. There are more tools that you should add to your toolbox, but we will discover them together later on.

Finally, you have written your first pieces of code using TypeScript, compiled them using tsc, and discovered how to improve your code using basic types and safer variable declarations.

In the next chapter, we'll create our first real application. It won't take over the world (yet), but it will certainly help you to learn more about TypeScript's basic features!