The development environment is one of the key elements for most developers, but most of them get frustrated with configurations and tooling. In this chapter, you will learn how to set up a Node.js-based web server to serve your web service. You will also learn how to transpile routines for your TypeScript code into JavaScript. Linters will also be covered, which define semantic coding standards and check the source code while you're coding. In the upcoming chapters, we will introduce some testing suites that cover this in more detail. Finally, we will define Node.js-backed tasks that will run in the background, watch file changes, and update output. 

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Installing various web servers
• Dependencies for TypeScript
• Code Linters and testing suites
• Building tasks for coding