'tsc command not found' in compiling typescript

Question

I want to install typescript, so I used the following command:

npm install -g typescript 

and test tsc --version, but it just

Answer 1

you are all messing with the global installations and -path files. Just a little error might damage every project you have ever written, and you will spend the rest of the nite trying to get a console.log('hi') to work again:-=.

If you have run npm i typescript --save-dev in your project - just try to run:

npx tsc

and see if it works before messing with global stuff (unless ofc you really know what you are doing)

cheers