tsc-files-ignore-imports

A tiny tool to run tsc on specific files with ignoring the imports and without ignoring tsconfig.json.

Installation

npm i -D tsc-files-ignore-imports

yarn add -D tsc-files-ignore-imports

Why

I wanted to type-check only the staged files with ignoring imports and the imports of the imports with lint-staged.

Unfortunately passing specific files like tsc --noEmit file1.ts file2.ts will cause TypeScript to simply ignore your tsconfig.json.

There's already an open issue in the TypeScript repo to support this use case — you may want to give a 👍 there: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/27379

Usage

With lint-staged:

{
  "lint-staged": {
    "**/*.ts": "tsc-files-ignore-imports --noEmit"
  }
}

add tsconfig.autoGenerated.json to .gitIgnore

How it works

For the most part, it just forwards all arguments to tsc with one exception: the specified files will not be forwarded — instead, they will be put at the files property of a temporary config that will be generated next to your original tsconfig.json. then it will filter out the errors and catch only the ones from the files.

License

Released under the MIT License.