Support for TypeScript Project References / --build mode

[bohdyone]

Hi,

I'm looking at integrating your groovy tool into my monorepo, but it seems like it doesn't yet support tsc --build --watch?

This is useful to pick up and reload based on changes to dependencies as well as the project under test.

See here for more info:
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/project-references.html#tsc--b-commandline

Cheers.

[gilamran]

Can you share an example? or just put some example code here?

[bohdyone]

You can see an example of project references in action in the official TS repo: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/src/tsserver/tsconfig.json

In terms of the changes required in the watch step, it's pretty much just running tsc --build --watch instead of tsc --watch, at least in the simplest case.

[gilamran]

Why are you saying that it's not working?
can you share an example of the fail?

[bohdyone]

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding -- I thought that this package just ran `tsc --watch` under the hood. Is there a way to specify `--build`?

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[gilamran]

did you try to add --build?

[bohdyone]

I'm sorry, I completely misunderstood how tsc-watch works with regards to the handling of arguments. I see now that you simply parse additional arguments and then pass through the rest to tsc, so adding --build does indeed work. Quite a future-proof design.

Apologies for the needless issue!