what is the purpose of tsconfig.json?

Question

I was reading angular2 referrences and found this tsconfig.json. I would like to know what the following parameters mean?

{
    \"compilerOption         


        

Answer 1

tsconfig file indicates the project as typescript project and it includes options on how the typescript files to be compiled. For details check the site https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/tsconfig-json.html