How to build to output folder when the typescript files are located in './src'

Question

What I have:

./src/myfile.ts
./test/mytest.spec.ts

And tsc should create a javascript ( myfile.js ) and definition file ( myfile.d.ts ) in the ./build location.

My tsconfig.ts:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "commonjs",
    "target": "es6",
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "rootDir": ".",
    "outDir": "./build",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "declaration": true
  },
  "files": [
    "./src/index.ts"
  ],
  "exclude": [
    ".vscode",
    ".git",
    "build",
    "node_modules",
    "test"
  ],
  "compileOnSave": false,
  "buildOnSave": false,
  "atom": {
    "rewriteTsconfig": false
  }
}

But this config file generates the myfile.js in the ./build/src/ sub-folder.

Note that I cannot use "rootDir": "./src" because then the test folder is not compiled (which gives problems when running tests with karma + webpack?)

Answer 1

And tsc should create a javascript (myfile.js) and definition file (myfile.d.ts) in the ./build location.

TypeScript is not nicely modeled to handle bundling . That is something you should use some other tool to do

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eg Webpack quickstart: https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/quick/browser.html

Don't recommend out / outFile : https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/tips/outFile.html