Issues setting up typescript!!!

[Rowan5654]

Hello.

I am sure this is probably common knowledge to everyone by now but I have been at this problem all morning and I'm finally ready to ask for help.

I am trying to run any typescript file but whenever I enter the command into the terminal:

"tsc filename.ts"

I just get the error:

"tsc : The term 'tsc' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1

• tsc --init

• 
  + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (tsc:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException"

I have tried running the "npm install -g typescript" command because I thought that I needed to install typescript even though it should have come with vscode but I just get the same error.

Anyone see my problem here? I'm very new to vscode as I usually use vsstudio and notepad++ so perhaps I've done something wrong here during installation?

Thanks.

• Rowan

[JirkaDellOro]

"npm install -g typescript"

That should do it, right. Restarted computer?

[Rowan5654]

When I type that in I get the same message as before.

Perhaps I have set up visual studio code incorrectly? Is there any external software I need to download I don't know about?

[JirkaDellOro]

Ah... your system doesn't even know npm, so installing typescript didn't work in the first place. Of course, then you can't call tsc... So install Node.js, which usually comes with VSCode

[JirkaDellOro]

Please leave a final comment with some explanation to the solution you found, so that we all can learn from it.

[Rowan5654]

I'm not really sure what I did to get it working. I just turned my computer off and went to bed. When I woke up this morning it miraculously worked!

Perhaps my solution was to restart my computer? Maybe.

[JirkaDellOro]

Maybe it just needed some sleep