The TypeScript compiler is called tsc and is responsible for transpiling the TypeScript code to JavaScript. The TypeScript compiler is also cross-platform and supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

To run the TypeScript compiler, there are a couple of options. One is to integrate the compiler in your editor of choice, which we explained in the previous section. In the previous section, we also integrated the TypeScript compiler with VS Code, which allowed us to build our code from the editor itself. All the compiler configurations that we would want to use are added to the tsconfig.json file.

Another option is to use tsc directly from the command line / Terminal window. TypeScript's tsc command takes compiler configuration options as parameters and compiles code into JavaScript. For example, create a simple TypeScript file in Notepad and add the following...