I'm not a professional front end developer but recently completed some projects in TypeScript. I found it very painless to get set up on Emacs with Tide [0] and it was a pleasure to use. I also use web-mode [1] for templates which adds some bonus features over the existing HMTL editing mode.

[0]: https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tide

[1]: https://github.com/fxbois/web-mode