Visual Studio: How to create project from existing GitHub repository?

Question

I came from Eclipse background and I am apparently missing something.

There is an existing GitHub project with JS code in it and I would like to start adding TypeScript

Answer 1

I solved this by opening the site as a website. File->Open->Website.

No Project Files/Solution files required. It just opens up the folder in the solution explorer.

To make it a typescript project, just add a tsconfig.json file to the directory.