Creating the configuration files

To create the configuration for the TypeScript compiler, add a file named tsconfig.json to the part2app folder with the content shown in Listing 9.5.

Your code editor may report errors with the tsconfig.json file, but these will be resolved when you start the development tools in Listing 9.12.

Listing 9.5: The contents of the tsconfig.json file in the part2app folder

{
    "extends": "@tsconfig/node20/tsconfig.json",
     "compilerOptions": {                     
         "rootDir": "src/server", 
         "outDir": "dist/server/"
     },
     "include": ["src/server/**/*"]
}

This file builds on the configuration contained in the @tsconfig/node20 package added to the project in Listing 9.4. The rootDir and include settings are used to tell the compiler to process files in the src/server folder. The outDir setting tells the compiler...