Excluding the 'src' folder from output during typescript compilation?

Question

When running tsc how do we exclude the src folder (Root containing folder) from output? I have the outDir set to target and instead of target/src/file.ts I would like target/file.ts?

Answer 1

Your probably looking for the rootDir tsconfig option. Specifically, in your case: rootDir: 'src/', supposing your keeping all source files under ./src/ and your tsconfig.json at the level above src/.

Note however, tsc may silently ignore this setting if your actually importing files that aren't under src/, say for example you import your package.json from top level.