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Support for compilerOptions.types

See original GitHub issue

Given this tsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "jsx": "react",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "noImplicitReturns": true,
    "noImplicitThis": true,
    "noUnusedLocals": true,
    "noUnusedParameters": true,
    "sourceMap": true,
    "strictNullChecks": true,
    "target": "es2015",
    "types": [
      "jest",
      "node"
    ]
  }
}

TypeDoc fails to run with the following error:

Error: Unknown option `types.0`.
Error: Unknown option `types.1`.

Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Radagaisuscommented, Oct 18, 2016

A quick patch is to add typeRoots and types to the ignored compiler options. Though, for better support of future TypeScript versions, and an easier upgrade path, it’s best to switch to a whitelist.

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Gerrit0commented, Jan 17, 2020

This appears to have been fixed with #449

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