Setting up the IDE
To start writing code in TypeScript, we first need to install the compiler. The compiler is available as a standalone package through Node.js, Visual Studio tooling that Microsoft provides, or you can directly download the compiler's source code. Throughout this text we will be using Visual Studio 2013 as our interactive development environment (IDE). Visual Studio 2013 provides native support for TypeScript with the release of Update 2. For Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft provides an extension that can be installed from the TypeScript home page (http://www.typescriptlang.org/). As TypeScript is becoming more widespread, the number of code editors that have support for it has grown including Eclipse (http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/ ...
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