Emit skipped when parsing config typescript files

Question

I have a problem with the node-config library while using typescript.
My config folder is as follows:

However after I run tsc and try to start my app from it's entry point (app.js) I get the following error:
Error: Cannot parse config file: '..../config/development.ts': TypeError: config/development.ts: Emit skipped

When deleting the typescript files from that folder and keeping only the.js files it works. Anybody has an idea how I can solve this?

This is how my tsconfig looks:

 "target": "es6" 
 "module": "commonjs"
 "strict": true
 "esModuleInterop": true

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

TypeScript files outside of the project folder will produce an Emit skipped error. I can't tell if this is your issue because '..../config/' could be inside or outside the project. In my case, moving my configuration folder into my project worked around the bug. Blechy.

https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node/issues/693

Answer 2

"allowJS": true works for me.

The forcing to chage the settings is not good, but this error has been admitted as bug. https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node/issues/693

Answer 3

I got this error for having an index.js file next to an index.ts file. I somehow rendered my TS to my rootDir source folder.

Terminal grab of error and fix:

> node --loader ts-node/esm src/index.ts

/sandbox/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:944
          throw new TypeError(`${relative(cwd, fileName)}: Emit skipped`);
                ^
TypeError: src/services/index.js: Emit skipped
    at getOutput (/sandbox/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:944:17)
    at Object.compile (/sandbox/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1243:30)
    at /sandbox/node_modules/ts-node/src/esm.ts:282:37
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at /sandbox/node_modules/ts-node/dist/esm.js:8:71
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at __awaiter (/sandbox/node_modules/ts-node/dist/esm.js:4:12)
    at transformSource (/sandbox/node_modules/ts-node/dist/esm.js:127:16)
    at /sandbox/node_modules/ts-node/src/esm.ts:197:51
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
sandbox@sse-sandbox-4stfq:/sandbox$ ls src/services/
index.js  index.ts  user
sandbox@sse-sandbox-4stfq:/sandbox$ rm src/services/index.js

Answer 4

If nothing worked for you try updating ts-node to 10.7 . It worked for me.

"ts-node": "^10.7.0",