How to watch and compile all TypeScript sources?

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Create a file named tsconfig.json in your project root and include following lines in it:

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
        "module": "commonjs",
        "target": "ES5",
        "outDir": "ts-built",
        "rootDir": "src"
    }
}

Please note that outDir should be the path of the directory to receive compiled JS files, and rootDir should be the path of the directory containing your source (.ts) files.

Open a terminal and run tsc -w, it’ll compile any .ts file in src directory into .js and store them in ts-built directory.

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