How to make a folder not compile to js using tsconfig

Question

I'm trying to create a npx package and to do so, i need to convert my.ts files into.js. The application i am making basically spits out typeScript templates to users according to the options they select. So, in this app, basically there is a CLI ( index.ts ) and the 'templates' folder. If i nest all of this into a 'src' folder and add rootDir: "./src" to tsconfig , what i want in the end is tsconfig to not compile with the "./src/templates" folder but copy it in the "dist" folder it generates and compile the "index.ts" file only.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

To answer my own question in simple sense, you cannot selectively choose not to compile a certain folder included in rootDir . As a workaround for the problem though, what i did was compile index.ts file only into the dist folder and then copy the templates folder into the dist folder.