WebPack ts-loader compiling all files when I only want it to run in one folder/file

Question

I found a problem in my app structure and build process using WebPack, TypeScript, and TS-Loader that I thought was caused by TypeScript 2.1.4, but apparently was there the whol

Answer 1

You can work around this bug by specifying the option onlyCompileBundledFiles in your webpack.config.js like so

module: {
    rules: [
        {
            test: /\.tsx?/,
            use: [{loader: 'ts-loader', options: {onlyCompileBundledFiles: true}}],
        }
    ],
},

I still find it astonishing that ts-loader is broken by default, but at least there's a workaround.