TypeScript: Typescript compile on save setting in Visual studio is not honored

Repro steps: Edit a typescript file.

Expected behavior: If Tools -> Text Editor -> Typescript -> Project -> General If Compile on Save option unchecked equivalent js file should not be generated at the current location.

Current behavior: Generating a js file.

Earlier versions of ntvs had this in the project file for the behavior

<EnableTypeScript>true</EnableTypeScript>
<TypeScriptSourceMap>true</TypeScriptSourceMap>
<TypeScriptModuleKind>CommonJS</TypeScriptModuleKind>
<ToolsVersionPromptShown>1.7</ToolsVersionPromptShown>

Which was automatically generating the js file.

When I open a nodejs solution, I currently see it’s automatically edited. But I don’t see above setting changes getting added in the edit. I am currently not sure where it is getting controlled from.

Issue redirected from https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/issues/832

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 21 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

If you are using a tsconfig, set "compileOnSave": true in it. see http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/tsconfig.json.html#compileonsave

If you are not using a tsconfig.json file, then the project property pages should would be the place to set CompileOnSave. projectproperties

If you do not have a project file, i.e. open a ts file and start editing, then use Tools -> Text Editor -> Typescript -> Project -> General to turn compile on save on. tsconfig

hope that helps.

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mhegazy on Apr 14, 2016

You need to add { "compileOnSave": true } to your tsconfig.json file. However, it doesn’t seem to always follow it, or there are hidden errors… not sure; it’s very flaky.

pebezo on Apr 12, 2016

If I can come up with a repro I’ll make sure to post it – unfortunately it seems rather random. Sometimes right-clicking on the project and choosing “rebuild” works when just saving doesn’t. Just “build” doesn’t seem to work…

pebezo on Apr 15, 2016

@rkavalap the fix is in https://github.com/rkavalap/NightWatchTest/pull/2/commits/a3066a44740e7a615f56026e9ee52ad1527b3939

The better fix is to add a tsconfig.json to your project.

{
    "compileOnSave": false,
    "compilerOptions": {
        "module": "commonjs",
        "target": "es5"
    }
}

you can find the full documentation for the properties in http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/compiler-options-in-msbuild.html

mhegazy on Apr 26, 2016