[1.0] gatsby-plugin-typescript fails without tsconfig.json

From the docs it seemed as if all that needed to be done to get gatsby-plugin-typescript working is to install the dependencies and add an entry to gatsby-config.js — however, if you don’t also create a tsconfig.json file, gatsby develop throws the following:

WARNING in ./pages/index.tsx Module build failed: error while parsing tsconfig.json @ ./pages (coffee|cjsx|ts|tsx|jsx|js|md|rmd|mkdn?|mdwn|mdown|markdown|litcoffee|ipynb|html|json|yaml|toml)$ ERROR in error TS18002: The ‘files’ list in config file ‘tsconfig.json’ is empty.

A workaround is running: ./node_modules/.bin/tsc --init in the root of a project.

It’d be cool if one wasn’t necessary and all TypeScript config could just be done in gatsby-config.js.

[fabien0102]

I’m use to have a tsconfig.json so I not really aware on this issue, but I understand that It can be cool to have a default one 😃

@aendrew I’m actually working on a gatsby-starter (including typescript), If you want to test/contribute, your are welcome 😃

[KyleAMathews]

Thanks! Though that’s been @fabien0102 who’s been tending the typescript docs.