Typescript error “Cannot write file … because it would overwrite input file.”

Question

In my Typescript 2.2.1 project in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, I am getting hundreds of errors in the error list like:

Cannot write file \'C:/{{my-project

Answer 1

Adding 'dist' to the excluded directories in tsconfig.json worked for me:

{
  "exclude": ["node_modules", "dist"]
}