This is a sample of web programming in TypeScript that will be used in class. It's not particularly exciting, but will help you verify everything is installed and working and create a small web application.
The sample has been set up with a complete project for Typescript development.
To work with this sample and prepare your submission, you should have Node (and in particular, npm) installed, which you can retrieve from nodejs.org.
In addition to node, you should make sure a recent (e.g., version 3.5 or later) version of Typescript is installed, as described at www.typescriptlang.org.
Finally, we will use https-localhost to run a local https webserver on your machine. The package.json is set up to run this server on Mac and Linux (see below), but on Windows you will need to install the server globally, as described on the package website:
npm i -g --only=prod https-localhost
If you are in your project directory, you can start the server with serve
You can compile the typescript to javascript:
tsc
You can also run tsc --watch so that tsc remains running and recompiles whenever you save a file.
The project also includes a simple https-localhost package (specified in the package.json) and a command to launch a web server to serve up the files in this directory. To use it, you must install all the required npm packages, and then run serve command in the package.json using ``npm run```
npm install
npm run server
Alternatively, if you install https-localhost globally (needed on Windows), you can just run serve in the project directory.
You can run the sample by pointing your web browser at https://localhost:8080/app.html