Can you type check a TS file without emitting it, but emit all other TS files?

[atomic rivet]

I feel like the answer to my question should be in the tsconfig reference, but I'm not finding a property for this.

I have a typescript project with many files. Some of them are *.test.ts files. These are tests and it is important to me that they are type checked, but I don't want them to be included in the final output.

I know the directory structure is relevant to answering this question, but I actually have two projects with unrelated directory structures and I want to know how to do this with both:

1. One project has separate /src and /test directories.
2. In the other, source and test files share the same root and are intermingled in the same folders

Can you type check a TS file without emitting it, but emit all other TS files?

[atomic rivet]

I may have asked this in a way that takes a lot of effort to answer. Knowing that this property exists (or not) as a tsconfig prop would help me immensely

[atomic rivet]

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[cold timber]

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[atomic rivet]

!helper

[obtuse aurora]

isn't using two tsconfigs enough @atomic rivet

[atomic rivet]

for 1 and 2?

Also, doesn't vs code only use the one with the tsconfig.json filename at the root?

[obtuse aurora]

yes

but you aren't building using vscode

just do tsc -p tsconfig.build.json

[atomic rivet]

right, but I want vscode to tell me about errors in production and test files, not just one or the other

[obtuse aurora]

no like

what

i don't understand how this is confusing
tsconfig.json includes all files
tsconfig.build.json includes only non test files

[atomic rivet]

oh so tsconfig.json is there only for vscode?

It's not used by anything else?

[obtuse aurora]

pretty much

[atomic rivet]

ah ok. I hadn't considered that as a route I could take. So I guess I'm supposed to have a base tsconfig they both share so they don't get out of sync

Thank you @obtuse aurora

!resolve

[obtuse aurora]

yeah thats how people do it usually
i usually import the base from the tsconfig that the ide uses that way its just adding more files but you do you

[atomic rivet]

i usually import the base from the tsconfig that the ide uses that way its just adding more files but you do you
not sure I understand. how many ts configs are there and which extends which?

[balmy bolt]

Hello, can I help you?