Silent errors mode

[erkinalp]

Suggestion

🔍 Search Terms

silent errors, errors without messages, silent failure

✅ Viability Checklist

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

⭐ Suggestion

When supplied --silent-errors, check for all errors and fail in the first error with no error messages other than "Error detected, compilation failed", without proceeding further to produce any error messages.

📃 Motivating Example

💻 Use Cases

This may be useful in cases the build is linted in a separate development environment and it is enough to fail without seeing the reason of failure.