How description files are loaded in typescript

Question

in the past, typescript d.ts files were only loaded when needed with the ///<reference path="... instruction. However, I understand that this has recently changed, and now the compiler can automatically load some local definition files I tried to find the rules for this by doing a Google search and looking at the TS specifications, but without success at the moment.

Would anyone be kind enough to explain these rules or point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

These days everyone uses tsconfig.json , the original or atom- (in the Atom editor).

When using tsconfig.json you can omit the list of files, and the typescript compiler will compile all *.ts files that it finds in any subdirectory, including *.d.ts .

Exclude files through exclude on the path , as well as globbing files .

If you do not want to use tsconfig.json or need to transcode the files right now, you can achieve similar behavior using gulp with gulp-typescript and gulp-filter .