Currently, I am working on a TypeScript project using an ASP.NET 5 template in VS.NET 2015. In the scripts/tsconfig.json file that I added, there is a default exclude section which includes:
"exclude": [
"node_modules",
"wwwroot"
]
However, as I followed tutorials, I realized that I should set the TypeScript build output directory to:
"outDir": "../wwwroot"
The official definition of exclude from the TypeScript wiki explains it as follows:
If the "exclude" property is specified, the compiler includes all TypeScript (*.ts or *.tsx) files in the containing directory and subdirectories except for those files or folders that are excluded.
I am a bit confused because the tsconfig.json file applies settings to the virtual typescript project within the folder where it is located (in my case, the /scripts folder). Do I still need that exclude setting? Why was wwwroot automatically added to be excluded? Since I don't intend to have a wwwroot folder within my /scripts folder, I am trying to understand the reasoning behind excluding it. Was it added by default assuming I could have placed my tsconfig.json file at the root of the project, in which case excluding the wwwroot folder would make sense?