Maximilian: You might have already seen it
in the previous lectures I showed you demo code
in Visual Studio Code.
That's the IDE, the code editor I'm using
throughout this course.
Now, you can of course follow along
with any code editor of your choice.
Visual Studio Code however is a great choice,
because it's free to use
and because it has great TypeScript support built in.
So in case you're not sure which editor to use,
that would be my recommendation.
You can download it for free from code.visualstudio.com.
It's available for all operating systems.
And after installing it,
you can of course configure it by adding extensions
and tweaking the settings to your liking,
though you won't need any special extension
to follow along with this course
and learn all about TypeScript.
Now, it's also worth mentioning
that when it comes to project setups
and writing code in this course,
we'll often start with an empty folder
and just add a bunch of TypeScript files to it
to play around with the various TypeScript features
you'll learn about throughout this course.
And very often, we won't even bother to compile
the TypeScript code we write,
because Visual Studio Code, like many other editors,
has great TypeScript support built in.
And therefore, if you make an error in there,
if you do something that makes TypeScript sad, so to say,
you will typically get an error
right inside of Visual Studio Code.
And that's what we'll use quite a lot
as you will see throughout this course.
Now, there also are some sections
where I prepared a project setup for you.
And in those cases, you'll find it attached to the lectures
where we get started with that project setup.
But as mentioned, in most sections,
it'll essentially be an empty or almost empty folder
to which we then gradually add more and more files.