Is tsconfig.build.json still needed ?

Question

Is tsconfig.build.json still needed ?

DevDengChao opened this issue 3 years ago · 3 comments

tsconfig.build.json is introduced in commit 1b81bde , and it seems like the author is testing something with it and forget to remove it later.

Dose it still needed in new project by default ?

I created a new project by nest new my-project, and I found this file is not referenced anywhere, so I came here and created this issue.

Answer 1 · 2021-11-01T12:55:40.000Z

tsconfig.build.json is actually the config file used by the nest build command and passed on to tsc for compilation options. If you remove it, you'll notice the command doesn't work anymore

Answer 2 · 2021-11-01T13:06:01.000Z

Thanks for your explaination.

Answer 3 · 2021-11-01T13:41:30.000Z

you can merge it with tsconfig.json (and change the build npm-script to nest build -p tsconfig.json) but then you will need to write another tsconfig to deal with .spec.ts files (for development purposes).