How to import repo with uncompiled TypeScript in Angular 5+ (and exclude .spec.ts files)

Question

A recent upgrade to Angular 5.x is not allowing uncompiled TypeScript to import from a node_modules repo. It looks like the workaround is to include the .

Answer 1

open your tsconfig.json, and change to this

{
  ...
  "compilerOptions": {
   ...
  },      
  "include": [
    "./src",
    "node_modules/example"
  ],
  "exclude" : ...
}