error TS18002 when tsconfig.json is not found

[vivekkpai]

In my build scenario, all compilerOptions are passed within the Webpack configuration. There are no tsconfig.json files anywhere in the source tree. Webpack configuration files are generatedon-the-fly based on information in a project repository (a database).

While this used to work with [email protected] and [email protected], it no longer does with [email protected]. Now ts-loader terminates with error:

error TS18002: The 'files' list in config file 'tsconfig.json' is empty

I tried the following combinations:

[email protected] and [email protected] // <- Fails!
[email protected] and [email protected] // <- Fails!
[email protected] and [email protected] // <- Works!!

The error seems to arise from an empty configuration that is created (in config.js line 46). For some reason, this results in an error with compiler.parseJsonConfigFileContent (config.js line 99). I didn't investigate further into the typescript compiler to see why this is the case. I also don't see changes with respect to 1.2.2 which might cause this.

A small change seems to fix this:
//config.ts line 46
configFile = {
config: {
compilerOptions: {},
// files: [], // As it exists in the repo as of 1.3.3
files: [ loader.resourcePath ] // Line changed to add current resource path
},
};

A bug or by-design?

[johnnyreilly]

This was a change in TypeScript 2.1 - nothing to do with ts-loader I'm afraid. See microsoft/TypeScript#11834 for details

[elsassph]

Sorry but concretely, is there a workaround besides going back TS 2.0?