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TS18002: The 'files' list in config file 'tsconfig.json' is empty with Cypress 10.0.0

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior

We have an old cypress project running Cypress 9.5 version and uses support files that in typescript. The tsconfig.js looks like this

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "strict": true,
    "baseUrl": "../node_modules",
    "target": "es5",
    "lib": [
      "es5",
      "dom"
    ],
    "types": [
      "cypress",
      "cypress-wait-until"
    ]
  },
  "include": [
    "*/cypress/support/*.ts"
  ]
}

After upgrading to cypress 10.0.0, I am unable to run any of the tests and they fail with the following error.

Webpack Compilation Error
[tsl] ERROR
      TS18002: The 'files' list in config file 'tsconfig.json' is empty.

Any reason why that would happen and what should be added as part of the files property ?

Desired behavior

Upgrade to Cypress 10.0 should not cause any issues to the old projects

Test code to reproduce

This is a setup/configuration problem not with the code.

Cypress Version

10.0.0

Other

No response

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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flotwigcommented, Jun 6, 2022

@IrfanSyed-PSC this is indeed a duplicate of #18938 then, since you don’t have a root tsconfig. Create a valid tsconfig.json at the root of your project and this should go away.

Closing as duplicate.

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IrfanSyed-PSCcommented, Jun 6, 2022

After doing the change, I see the following error. I am guessing it is because of this issue https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-docker-images/issues/673. Please let me know if its not