Only 'amd' and 'system' modules are supported alongside --out

Question

When building typescript in VSCode, I get the following error:

error TS6082: Only 'amd' and 'system' modules are supported alongside --out.

My settings are as follows:

tsconfig.json

{     "compilerOptions": {         "target": "ES5",         "module": "commonjs",         "out": "current/game.js",         "removeComments": true,         "sourceMap": false     } } 

.vscode/tasks.json:

{     "version": "0.1.0",      // The command is tsc. Assumes that tsc has been installed using npm install -g typescript     "command": "tsc",      // The command is a shell script     "isShellCommand": true,      // Show the output window only if unrecognized errors occur.     "showOutput": "silent",      // args is the HelloWorld program to compile.     "args": [],      // use the standard tsc problem matcher to find compile problems     // in the output.     "problemMatcher": "$tsc" } 

Despite the error, the game.js file does get created and runs properly.

Anyone have any thoughts about what might cause this error?

Answer 1

It means what it says. You can’t use --out/--outFile to bundle modules together for Node.js/CommonJS, since there is no bundle format for CommonJS. Simply don’t use that option for CommonJS and corresponding JS files will be emitted for each input TS module file.