How to Install Specific Version of TypeScript

We will introduce how to install version-specific TypeScript with examples.

Install Specific Version of TypeScript

TypeScript is a programming language that Microsoft maintains. It is organized for developing applications and can transpile to JavaScript.

TypeScript supports report files containing information from existing JavaScript libraries like C++ header files defining the structure of object files. This article will discuss the TypeScript versions and tell how to install this with some examples.

Many situations require the installation of TypeScript in specific versions. There can be some client requirements or some software requirements to use a particular version of TypeScript to develop an application.

In this tutorial, we will go through two types of installations, such as version-specific and the latest version installation.

# TypeScript
npm install -g typescript

This command will install the latest version of TypeScript. If we want to install a specific version of TypeScript, we can mention the version using the @ symbol, as shown below.

# TypeScript
npm install -g typescript@4.5

We have set the TypeScript version to 4.5. After setting the 4.5 version, you will notice that your TypeScript code will not work because the code has features of the 4.7 (latest) version.

If we upgrade the TypeScript version, our code shall work again. If we want to upgrade to the latest version, we have to use the command above, which upgrades to the newest TypeScript version.