TypeScript Build Directory issue

[coarse forum]

Hello! So i have set my tsconfig.json to build to a new folder called _dist. Only issue is i have a top level serviceAccountKey.json that my files require to initialize my database. Unfortunately a side effect is that it creates a copy of that serviceAccountKey.json and also recreates the src folder within the _dist folder as well. I was wondering if there was a setting to fix this or a problem in my implementation. The result i want is within the _dist directory there is no src folder (obviously lol) and no serviceAccountKey.json.

[brazen ferry]

If it's mirroing your src directory that's because you're importing things from outside your source directory into your project so that becomes your root directory.

You can explicitly set a rootDir in your tsconfig: e.g. rootDir: "src" and that will preven the _dist/src structure... but it'll just error on all the places where you're importing from outside of src and you'll have to change it.

You could look into some other approach for loading that data, like environment variables

[coarse forum]

very helpful! I was thinking bout just using an enviornment variable but wanted to see the reasoning behind this first

thanks @brazen ferry ! I think i can take it from here