@unts/get-tsconfig
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Find and parse the tsconfig.json file from a directory path
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get-tsconfig
Find and parse tsconfig.json
files.
Features
- Zero dependency (not even TypeScript)
- Tested against TypeScript for correctness
- Supports comments & dangling commas in
tsconfig.json
- Resolves
extends
- Fully typed
tsconfig.json
- Validates and throws parsing errors
- Tiny!
3.6 kB
Minified + Gzipped
🚀 Install
npm install get-tsconfig
🙋♀️ Why?
For TypeScript related tooling to correctly parse tsconfig.json
file without depending on TypeScript.
⚙️ API
getTsconfig(searchPath?, configName?)
Searches for a tsconfig.json
file and parses it. Returns null
if a config file cannot be found, or an object containing the path and parsed TSConfig object if found.
Returns:
type TsconfigResult = {
/**
* The path to the tsconfig.json file
*/
path: string
/**
* The resolved tsconfig.json file
*/
config: TsConfigJsonResolved
}
searchPath
Type: string
Default: process.cwd()
Accepts a path to a file or directory to search up for a tsconfig.json
file.
configName
Type: string
Default: tsconfig.json
The file name of the TypeScript config file.
Example
import { getTsconfig } from 'get-tsconfig'
// Searches for tsconfig.json starting in the current directory
console.log(getTsconfig())
// Find tsconfig.json from a TypeScript file path
console.log(getTsconfig('./path/to/index.ts'))
// Find tsconfig.json from a directory file path
console.log(getTsconfig('./path/to/directory'))
// Explicitly pass in tsconfig.json path
console.log(getTsconfig('./path/to/tsconfig.json'))
parseTsconfig(tsconfigPath)
The tsconfig.json
parser used internally by getTsconfig
. Returns the parsed tsconfig as TsConfigJsonResolved
.
tsconfigPath
Type: string
Required path to the tsconfig file.
Example
import { parseTsconfig } from 'get-tsconfig'
// Must pass in a path to an existing tsconfig.json file
console.log(parseTsconfig('./path/to/tsconfig.custom.json'))
createPathsMatcher(tsconfig: TsconfigResult)
Given a tsconfig with compilerOptions.paths
defined, it returns a matcher function.
The matcher function accepts an import specifier (the path to resolve), checks it against compilerOptions.paths
, and returns an array of possible paths to check:
function pathsMatcher(specifier: string): string[]
This function only returns possible paths and doesn't actually do any resolution. This helps increase compatibility wtih file/build systems which usually have their own resolvers.
Example
import { getTsconfig, createPathsMatcher } from 'get-tsconfig'
const tsconfig = getTsconfig()
const pathsMatcher = createPathsMatcher(tsconfig)
function exampleResolver(request: string) {
if (pathsMatcher) {
const tryPaths = pathsMatcher(request)
// Check if paths in `tryPaths` exist
}
}
FAQ
How can I use TypeScript to parse tsconfig.json
?
This package is a re-implementation of TypeScript's tsconfig.json
parser.
However, if you already have TypeScript as a dependency, you can simply use it's API:
import {
sys as tsSys,
findConfigFile,
readConfigFile,
parseJsonConfigFileContent
} from 'typescript'
// Find tsconfig.json file
const tsconfigPath = findConfigFile(process.cwd(), tsSys.fileExists, 'tsconfig.json')
// Read tsconfig.json file
const tsconfigFile = readConfigFile(tsconfigPath, tsSys.readFile)
// Resolve extends
const parsedTsconfig = parseJsonConfigFileContent(
tsconfigFile.config,
tsSys,
path.dirname(tsconfigPath)
)