simple script to run TypeScript in --incremental --noEmit mode, while ignoring errors in any files outside the project folder (useful in mono repos with different and incompatible tsconfig.json's per package)

type-check.mjs

#!/usr/bin/env node

import path from "path";
import ts from "typescript";

//
// parse tsconfig.json
//

const configFilePath = ts.findConfigFile(
  "./",
  ts.sys.fileExists,
  "tsconfig.json"
);
const projectPath = path.resolve(path.dirname(configFilePath));
const configFile = ts.readConfigFile(configFilePath, ts.sys.readFile);

const compilerOptions = ts.parseJsonConfigFileContent(
  configFile.config,
  ts.sys,
  "./",
  {
    incremental: true,
    tsBuildInfoFile: path.join(projectPath, "type-check.tsbuildinfo"),

    // required to force emission of tsbuildinfo file(?)
    outDir: "tmp",
    noEmit: true,
  }
);

//
// setup program
//

const program = ts.createIncrementalProgram({
  rootNames: compilerOptions.fileNames,
  options: compilerOptions.options,
});

//
// run diagnostics and emit a tsbuildinfo for incremental type-checks
//

const preEmitDiagnostics = ts.getPreEmitDiagnostics(program);
const emitResult = program.emit();
const buildInfoEmitResult = program.emitBuildInfo();

const diagnostics = [
  ...preEmitDiagnostics,
  ...emitResult.diagnostics,
  ...buildInfoEmitResult.diagnostics,
].filter(
  (it) =>
    it.file.fileName.startsWith(projectPath + path.sep) &&
    !it.file.fileName.includes("node_modules")
);

//
// setup reporter utilities
//

const errorCount = ts.getErrorCountForSummary(diagnostics);
const filesInError = ts.getFilesInErrorForSummary(diagnostics);
const diagnosticsReporter = ts.createDiagnosticReporter(ts.sys, true);

const reportDiagnostics = (diagnostics) => {
  for (const diagnostic of diagnostics) {
    diagnosticsReporter(diagnostic);
  }
};

const reportSummary = (errorCount, filesInError) => {
  console.log(
    ts.getErrorSummaryText(errorCount, filesInError, ts.sys.newLine, ts.sys)
  );
};

//
// flush output to console
//

reportDiagnostics(diagnostics);
reportSummary(errorCount, filesInError);

process.exit(errorCount === 0 ? 0 : 1);

how this works to ignore node_modules?

@childrentime I think that this would ignore errors from node_modules out of the box (see line 56), have you tried it?

yeah! Thanks, great work😍!

@felskov While it's a shame that this is even needed, it really is a lifesaver and the only thing that makes proper typechecking in our monorepo possible right now. Thank you so much 🙏

it ignores node_modules but it also ignores .d.ts in my project source files just like skipLibCheck

here is my tsbuildinfo which is ignored

[
        2118,
        [
          {
            "file": "./src/typings/policy-promotion-quantity.d.ts",
            "start": 466,
            "length": 32,
            "messageText": "Cannot find name 'PolicyPromotionQuantityDetailDTO'. Did you mean 'PolicyPromotionQuantityLadder'?",
            "category": 1,
            "code": 2552
          },
          {
            "file": "./src/typings/policy-promotion-quantity.d.ts",
            "start": 2253,
            "length": 5,
            "messageText": "Cannot find name 'State'.",
            "category": 1,
            "code": 2304
          },
          {
            "file": "./src/typings/policy-promotion-quantity.d.ts",
            "start": 2299,
            "length": 11,
            "messageText": "Cannot find name 'SupplierDTO'.",
            "category": 1,
            "code": 2304
          }
        ]
      ]

I found that some error fileName don't match the filter rule, and my projectPath is /Users/luchengjie/Documents/earth-ama

fileName: 'src/typings/policy-promotion-quantity.d.ts',
    path: '/users/luchengjie/documents/earth-ama/src/typings/policy-promotion-quantity.d.ts',
    resolvedPath: '/users/luchengjie/documents/earth-ama/src/typings/policy-promotion-quantity.d.ts',
    originalFileName: 'src/typings/policy-promotion-quantity.d.ts',


fileName: '/Users/luchengjie/Documents/earth-ama/src/lib/app/request.tsx',
    path: '/users/luchengjie/documents/earth-ama/src/lib/app/request.tsx',
    resolvedPath: '/users/luchengjie/documents/earth-ama/src/lib/app/request.tsx',
    originalFileName: '/Users/luchengjie/Documents/earth-ama/src/lib/app/request.tsx',

Thank you for writing this, works like a charm :)