tsc --build emits into outDir AND next to source files

[danielrentz]

TypeScript Version: 3.2.1

I have tried https://github.com/RyanCavanaugh/project-references-demo

and tsc -b tsproject.json emits the output files into the /lib directory as expected, but additionally generates (some of) these files again next to the *.ts source files which seems unexpected.

Example session:

> git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

> tsc --build tsproject.json

> git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        animals/animal.d.ts
        animals/animal.js
        animals/dog.d.ts
        animals/dog.js
        zoo/zoo.d.ts
        zoo/zoo.js
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

[sheetalkamat]

I think in the demo projects we need to add

"files": [],

[danielrentz]

I think in the demo projects we need to add

"files": [],

That leads to generating the embedded files only, but not the lib directory. :)

[sheetalkamat]

Need to have tsconfig-base that contains extending compiler options apart from this. Since @RyanCavanaugh is oof and I don't have permission to push changes to that branch, we will have to wait for him to fix this. Moving this issue to the demo repo

[sheetalkamat]

RyanCavanaugh/project-references-demo#4 created