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

Issue

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?

Solution

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

Answered By - rood