Debugging TypeScript files outside wwwroot

Question

How should I debug TypeScript files in ASP.NET 5? Suppose solution layout as on the following picture. Notice .ts Scripts are outside wwwroot folder and compiled .js file is

Answer 1

I've stumbled across the same problem. Right now, with Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, and I managed to overcome this issue by placing the tsconfig.json at the project root with the following content (note the exclude):

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "amd",
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "sourceMap": false,
    "target": "es5"
  },
  "exclude": [
    "wwwroot",
    "bower_components",
    "node_modules"
  ]
}

With this, you can have your task runner to copy *.ts files to the wwwroot and VS will not complain about duplicates. In fact, it will completely ignore all files beneath the paths in the exclude section.