[TypeScript] Using Exclude and RootDir until File Globs Lands in 2.0.

Posted 2020-07-23 Answer1215

Files globs will be available in TypeScript 2.0, so in the meantime, we need to use "exclude" and "rootDir" to configure which files to load. This lesson shows how to switch from "files" to "exclude".

 

Curently, in tsconfig.json, we use "files" to tell the main entry file as "src/main". And import other file into main.ts. But the problem is if you want add each files manually into "files" config setting, IDEs cannot give the autocomplete for the rest of files.

 

From TypeScript 2.0 We will be able to get the auto complete by just current setting, but for now we need to use "exclude" and "rootDir" to tell TypeScript which files we want to use.

 

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "rootDir": "src",
        "module": "commonjs",
        "target": "es5",
        "noImplicitAny": false,
        "sourceMap": false,
        "outDir": "./dist",
        "noEmitOnError": true
    },
    "exclude": [
        "node_modules"
    ]
}