• do an npm i
• after that. do npm run debug

• You can clone this repo with git clone https://github.com/TaimoorHassan/nodets-starter.git if you have git installed. or you can download the zip file from the green button above.

After you've downloaded this repo.

• right click on nodets-starter(-master) folder and click Open with Visual Studio Code.
• This should open the repo in vscode
• hit Ctrl + j to bring up the terminal and run npm i
• dependencies should be installed now.
• in the terminal run npm run debug to start the program in debug mode
• any change you make to server.ts file in src folder will be immediately reflected. Program will compile and re-run every time you save that file. This feature is quite helpful during the development.
• please have a look at tsconfig.json & package.json as these two files define how your project is made up and how it will behave.

.gitignore is the file that contains files/directories that we want git to ignore for now there's only node_modules folder that we want to ignore.