tsconfig.json: Build:No inputs were found in config file

json typescript visual-studio-2015 asp.net-core
rood picture rood · Dec 18, 2016 · Viewed 116.7k times · Source

I have an ASP.NET core project and I'm getting this error when I try to build it:

error TS18003: Build:No inputs were found in config file 'Z:/Projects/client/ZV/src/ZV/Scripts/tsconfig.json'. Specified 'include' paths were '["**/*"]' and 'exclude' paths were '["../wwwroot/app","node_modules/*"]'.
1>         The command exited with code 1.
1>       Done executing task "VsTsc" -- FAILED.

This is my tsconfig.json file:

{
  "compileOnSave": true,
  "compilerOptions": {
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "lib": [ "es5", "dom" ],
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "noEmitOnError": true,
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "outDir": "../wwwroot/app/",
    "removeComments": false,
    "sourceMap": true,
    "target": "es6"
  },
  "exclude": [
    "../wwwroot/app",
    "node_modules/*"
  ]
}

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I did recently upgrade Visual Studio 2015 to update 3. Has anyone encountered this before?

Answer

rood picture rood · Dec 18, 2016

Add an empty typescript file to the typescript scripts folder (the location of your tsconfig file) to satisfy the typescript compiler.

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