“exclude” property of tsconfig.json is not being respected

In a similar vein I was having issues with node_modules exclusion.

Here’s a heavy handed solution, that ignores all *.d.ts files.

I added to compilerOptions:

"compilerOptions": {
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    ...
 }

Related:

• https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#compilerOptions