Compilation fails without the configuration file

[mciesin]

Expected Behaviour

Sources should compile wihout having to define tsconfig.json file.

Actual Behaviour

They don't.

When using ts-loader without any tsconfig.json, the config defaults to:

{
    "compilerOptions": {},
    "files": []
}

which causes typescript to fail because of the empty files list. The error is very misleading though - it says:

The 'files' list in config file 'tsconfig.json' is empty.

yet no tsconfig.json file does exist at all. It is generated by ts-loader in case when no config is found.

Could the default config, generated by ts-loader, be changed, e.g. to config recommended in configuration section in readme?

Similar issues were raised in #405 and #434.

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[slinkardbrandon]

I just ran into this today as well!

[sanderlissenburg]

Yep had this misleading error (TS18002: The 'files' list in config file 'tsconfig.json' is empty) too. Turned out I had a space in front of my config file. So no tsconfig.json was found, which resulted in the default empty files array as mentioned above.

[johnnyreilly]

If someone would like to raise a PR I'll take a look