tsconfig json Build No inputs were found in config file

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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 gt          The command exited with code 1  1 gt        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

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This can occur because typescript server can't find any files described by the include array:

// tsconfig.json
{
  //...
  "include": [
    "./src/"
  ],
}

If you're using VSCode, you can restart your TS server within your editor super easily to prompt it to re-evaluate the file like this:

Navigate to any .ts or .tsx file
Open the command palette (CMD + SHIFT + P on mac)
Run the TypeScript: Restart TS server command:

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I m not using TypeScript in this project at all so it s quite frustrating having to deal with this  I fixed this by adding a tsconfig json and an empty file ts file to the project root  The tsconfig json contains this        compilerOptions           allowJs   false       noEmit   true    Do not compile the JS  or TS  files in this project on build          compileOnSave   false     exclude      src    wwwroot        include      file ts

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I received this same error when I made a backup copy of the node modules folder in the same directory  I was in the process of trying to solve a different build error when this occurred  I hope this scenario helps someone  Remove the backup folder and the build will complete

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I had existing tsconfig files for 4 existing projects in my solution   After upgrading to vs2017 I experienced this problem   It was fixed by adding the  supposedly default  include and exclude sections to the files  as described by NicoJuicy

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I was getting this error   No inputs were found in config file  tsconfig json    Specified include paths were    quot      quot    and exclude paths    quot      spec ts quot   quot app       ts quot   quot      d ts quot   quot node modules quot     I had a  tsconfig file  which read TS files from the   src folder  The issue here was that with the source folder not containing any  ts files and I was running tslint  I resolved issue by removing tslint task from my gulp file  as I don t have any  ts files to be compiled and linted

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If you don t want TypeScript compilation  disable it in your  csproj file  according to this post   Just add the following line to your  csproj file    lt TypeScriptCompileBlocked gt true lt  TypeScriptCompileBlocked gt

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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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I have a tsconfig json file that doesn t apply to any  ts files  It s in a separate folder  Instead I only use it as a base for other tsconfig files via  extends       Configs tsconfig json   As soon as I renamed the base config file to something else e g  base-tsconfig json  and updated the extends statements  the error went away and the extending still worked

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When using Visual Studio Code  building the project  i e  pressing Ctrl   Shift   B   moves your  ts file into the  vscode folder   I don t know why it does this   then generates the TS18003 error  What I did was move my  ts file out of the  vscode folder  back into the root folder  and build the project again   The project built successfully

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Ok  in 2021  with a  lt project gt  src index ts file  the following worked for me   If VS Code complains with No inputs were found in config file    then change the include to      quot include quot     quot   src      ts quot   Found the above as a comment of How to Write Node js Applications in Typescript

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outDir    Should be different from   rootDir    example       outDir      dist        rootDir      src

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I had to add the files item to the tsconfig json file  like so          compilerOptions              target    es5            module    commonjs            sourceMap   true              files                 MyFile ts             More details here  https   www typescriptlang org docs handbook tsconfig-json html

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When you create the tsconfig json file by tsc --init  then it comments the input and output file directory  So this is the root cause of the error   To get around the problem  uncomment these two lines    outDir           rootDir            Initially it would look like above after un-commenting   But all my  ts scripts were inside src folder  So I have specified  src    outDir      scripts     rootDir      src         Please note that you need to specify the location of your  ts scripts in rootDir

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I added the following in the root   visual studio         compilerOptions          allowJs   true       noEmit   true       module    system        noImplicitAny   true       removeComments   true       preserveConstEnums   true       sourceMap   true         include                        exclude          assets        node modules        bower components        jspm packages          typeAcquisition          enable   true

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Changing index js to index ts fixed this error for me   I did not have any  ts files before this   Note  remember to change anywhere you reference index js to index ts except of course  where you reference your main file   By convention this is probably in your lib or dist folders  My tsconfig json       quot compilerOptions quot          quot target quot    quot es2016 quot        quot module quot    quot commonjs quot        quot outDir quot    quot   dist quot        quot strict quot   true       quot esModuleInterop quot   true       quot inlineSourceMap quot   true       quot noImplicitAny quot   false        My outDir is   dist so I reference my main in my package json as  quot main quot    quot dist index js quot

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I got the same error and in my case it was because vscode couldn t recognize  ts file   It was seeing it as text file and I had to rename it to remove one letter and add it back to make it work

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If you are using the vs code for editing then try restarting the editor This scenario fixed my issue I think it s the issue with editor cache

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I ran into this issue constantly while packing my projects into nugets via Visual Studio 2019  After looking for a solution for ages I seem to have solved this by following advice in this article   MSBuild  amp  Typescript  especially part about  lt TypeScriptCompile   gt  where I included all my  ts resources with the Include operator and excluded others such as node modules with the Remove operator  I then deleted the tsconfig json file in each offending project and the nuget packages were generated and no more errors

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I have all of my  ts files inside a src folder that is a sibling of my tsconfig json  I was getting this error when my include looked like this  it was working before  some dependency upgrade caused the error showing up     include          src            changing it to this fixed the problem for me    include

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add  ts file location in  include  tag then compile work fine  ex     include      wwwroot

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You can also try to restart your code editor  That works well too

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Btw  just had the same problem   If you had my case  then you probably have the tsconfig json not in the same directory as the  ts file    In my case I stupidly had next to launch json and tasks json inside the  vscode folder  P

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