How to ignore `node_modules` folder during TypeScript build in VSCode

Question

I'm using visual studio code IDE and typescript, how do I get it to ignore the node_modules folder during build? Or have it build .ts files on save? It is showing a lot of errors because it's trying to compile node_modules tsd.

Currently my tasks.json is

{
    "version": "0.1.0",

    // The command is tsc.
    "command": "tsc",

    // Show the output window only if unrecognized errors occur. 
    "showOutput": "silent",

    // Under windows use tsc.exe. This ensures we don't need a shell.
    "windows": {
        "command": "tsc.exe"
    },

    "isShellCommand": true,

    // args is the HelloWorld program to compile.
    "args": [],



    // use the standard tsc problem matcher to find compile problems
    // in the output.
    "problemMatcher": "$tsc"
}

Answer 1

In Version 0.5 you can hide files and folders

Open Files->Preferences->User Settings and add something like

{
        "files.exclude": {
            "**/.git": true,
            "**/.DS_Store": true,
            "jspm_packages" : true,
            "node_modules" : true
        }
}