How to run TypeScript files from command line?

Question

I\'m having a surprisingly hard time finding an answer to this. With plain Node.JS, you can run any js file with node path/to/file.js, with CoffeeScript it\'s <

Answer 1

How do I do the same with Typescript

You can leave tsc running in watch mode using tsc -w -p . and it will generate .js files for you in a live fashion, so you can run node foo.js like normal

TS Node

There is ts-node : https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node that will compile the code on the fly and run it through node