No input was found in config file tsconfig.json

Question

Through npm I have downloaded angular2-highcharts for my application. I just noticed that Visual Studio Code gives me an error in the tsconfig.json file of the package:

file: 'file:///c%3A/pdws-view-v2/node_modules/angular2-highcharts/tsconfig.json'
severity: 'Error'
message: 'No inputs were found in config file 'c:/pdws-view-v2/node_modules/angular2-highcharts/tsconfig.json'. Specified 'include' paths were '["src/**/*"]' and 'exclude' paths were '["examples","index.d.ts","node_modules","dist"]'.'
at: '1,1'
source: 'ts'

I don't really know why I'm getting this error or how to fix it.

Here's the file:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "target": "es5",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "removeComments": true,
    "sourceMap": true,
    "outDir": "dist",
    "declarationDir": "dist",
    "declaration": true
  },
  "compileOnSave": true,
  "include": [
    "src/**/*"
  ],
  "exclude": [
    "examples",
    "index.d.ts",
    "node_modules",
    "dist"
  ],
  "angularCompilerOptions": {
    "genDir": "dist/",
    "strictMetadataEmit": true,
    "skipTemplateCodegen": true
  }
}

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

The TS compiler want's to have a .ts file in the directory where your tsconfig.json is located. Create an empty file.ts in the same directory and the error should go away.