Preventing tsc compiler from omitting the unnecessary external modules

Question

There\'s a feature in TypeScript which I like so much and that\'s external modules using RequireJs and that the fact that the compiler won\'t include imported modules unless

Answer 1

There is a simply fiddle you can do to get the compiler to include both:

import A = require('./A');
import B = require('./B');

var a = new A();
var b = B;

The variable b becomes noise in your program, so I wouldn't use this technique too much, but if the B module is doing polyfills or something like that which means you'll never want to directly instantiate it, this gets it loaded for you.

Answer 2

Another way to do it:

/// <amd-dependency path="./B" />
import A = require('./A');

No need to create fictitious code