tsconfig.json

/**
 *   This is the tsconfig.json for the devopos scripts, not for the UI or any other services. 
 */
 {
	"compilerOptions": {
		// for node.js 8.4+, we can output to 2017 (Allow to have native async/await and all)
		"target": "es2017",

		// node.js does not support es2015, so, we tell typescript to output commonjs (we do not use rollup for server, just ts-node)
		"module": "commonjs",

		// 99% of the code will be .ts, and .js files will just be module glue and does not need to be processed by typescript (keep the glue small)
		"allowJs": false,
		"checkJs": false,

		"sourceMap": false,  // we do not need the sourcemap		

		// Since we are using ts-node, not really needed, but just in case we want to do a "tsc" on folder.
		"outDir": "./dist/", /* Redirect output structure to the directory. */

		// To extract the maximum value from TypeScript, we use strict = true (no implicit, null check, ...)
		"strict": true, 

		// This is important to support 3rd party modules that are still in a node.js/commonjs way
		"moduleResolution": "node", 

		// allow to import moment like: import moment from "moment"
		"allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true
	},

	// We want more control about which code we will compile and exclude
	"include": [
		"./src/**/*.ts"
	],

	"exclude": [
		"node_modules"
	]
}