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Checked August 16, 2026
What TypeScript Playground does, with a checked example
Write TypeScript in the left pane and the emitted JavaScript appears on the right as you type, with type errors and warnings listed alongside. All parsing, type checking, and emission happen in the browser tab, so there is no project setup and no tsc install. The surprise most users hit: a type error does not stop emission. The compiler strips type annotations and emits JavaScript anyway, so red squiggles and output can coexist - the diagnostics and the emitted code are separate results. Related surprise: interfaces and type aliases vanish entirely, while enums and namespaces become real runtime objects.
Worked example
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
interface Point {
x: number;
y: number;
}
function distance(a: Point, b: Point): number {
const dx = a.x - b.x;
const dy = a.y - b.y;
return Math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy);
}
const p1: Point = { x: 0, y: 0 };
const p2: Point = { x: 3, y: 4 };
console.log(distance(p1, p2)); ->
Expected output
function distance(a, b) {
const dx = a.x - b.x;
const dy = a.y - b.y;
return Math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy);
}
const p1 = { x: 0, y: 0 };
const p2 = { x: 3, y: 4 };
console.log(distance(p1, p2)); The interface and every type annotation disappear because types exist only at compile time; only runtime constructs survive. With a target of ES2015 or later the emitted code keeps its shape (an ES5 target would turn const into var). Running the snippet would print 5, since sqrt(9 + 16) is sqrt(25).