Using TypeScript in an existing Visual Studio Web Site project

Question

I\'ve got an existing Visual Studio project that was setup as a \"Web Site\" project. You can create projects like this by going to File->New Web Site. This is a different

Answer 1

For this to work on my setup, I have the "Automatically compile TypeScript files which are not part of a project" checkbox checked.

But this wasn't enough. For automatic compilation to work in a website project, I had to create a tsconfig.json file with the following configurations:

{
"compilerOptions": {
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "noEmitOnError": true,
    "removeComments": false,
    "sourceMap": true,
    "target": "es5",
    "alwaysStrict": true,
    "module": "amd"
},
"compileOnSave": true,
"exclude": [
    "node_modules",
    "wwwroot",
    "packages"
]
}

The "compileOnSave": true setting is the crucial one here. It's what triggers automatic compilation.

Typescript version 2.1.5 on Visual Studio 2017