fork-ts-type-build-webpack-plugin v0.2.2

Fork TS Type Build Webpack Plugin

Webpack plugin that runs typescript type definitions generator on a separate process.

Forked from fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin

Installation

This plugin requires minimum webpack 2.3, typescript 2.1 and optionally tslint 4.0

npm install --save-dev fork-ts-type-build-webpack-plugin

Basic webpack config (with ts-loader)

var ForkTsTypeBuildWebpackPlugin = require('fork-ts-type-build-webpack-plugin');

var webpackConfig = {
  context: __dirname, // to automatically find tsconfig.json
  entry: './src/index.ts',
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.tsx?$/,
        loader: 'ts-loader',
        options: {
          // disable type checker - we will use it in fork plugin
          transpileOnly: true 
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  plugins: [
    new ForkTsTypeBuildWebpackPlugin()
  ]
};

Motivation

Based off fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin It is the same code, just enable declaration generation.

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Options

• tsconfig string: Path to tsconfig.json file. Default: path.resolve(compiler.options.context, './tsconfig.json').

• compilerOptions object: Allows overriding TypeScript options. Should be specified in the same format as you would do for the compilerOptions property in tsconfig.json. Default: {}.

• tslint string | true: Path to tslint.json file or true. If true, uses path.resolve(compiler.options.context, './tslint.json'). Default: undefined.

• tslintAutoFix boolean: Passes on --fix flag while running tslint to auto fix linting errors. Default: false.

• watch string | string[]: Directories or files to watch by service. Not necessary but improves performance (reduces number of fs.stat calls).

• async boolean: True by default - async: false can block webpack's emit to wait for type checker/linter and to add errors to the webpack's compilation. We recommend to set this to false in projects where type checking is faster than webpack's build - it's better for integration with other plugins. Another scenario where you might want to set this to false is if you use the overlay functionality of webpack-dev-server.

• ignoreDiagnostics number[]: List of typescript diagnostic codes to ignore.

• ignoreLints string[]: List of tslint rule names to ignore.

• reportFiles string[]: Only report errors on files matching these glob patterns. This can be useful when certain types definitions have errors that are not fatal to your application. Default: [].

  // in webpack.config.js
  new ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin({ reportFiles: ['src/**/*.{ts,tsx}', '!src/skip.ts'] })

• colors boolean: If false, disables built-in colors in logger messages. Default: true.

• logger object: Logger instance. It should be object that implements method: error, warn, info. Default: console.

• formatter 'default' | 'codeframe' | ((message: NormalizedMessage, useColors: boolean) => string): Formatter for diagnostics and lints. By default uses default formatter. You can also pass your own formatter as a function (see src/NormalizedMessage.js and src/formatter/ for api reference).

• formatterOptions object: Options passed to formatters (currently only codeframe - see available options)

• silent boolean: If true, logger will not be used. Default: false.

• checkSyntacticErrors boolean: This option is useful if you're using ts-loader in happyPackMode with HappyPack or thread-loader to parallelise your builds. If true it will ensure that the plugin checks for both syntactic errors (eg const array = [{} {}];) and semantic errors (eg const x: number = '1';). By default the plugin only checks for semantic errors. This is because when ts-loader is used in transpileOnly mode, ts-loader will still report syntactic errors. When used in happyPackMode it does not. Default: false.

• memoryLimit number: Memory limit for service process in MB. If service exits with allocation failed error, increase this number. Default: 2048.

• workers number: You can split type checking to a few workers to speed-up increment build. Be careful - if you don't want to increase build time, you should keep free 1 core for build and 1 core for a system (for example system with 4 CPUs should use max 2 workers). Second thing - node doesn't share memory between workers - keep in mind that memory usage will increase. Be aware that in some scenarios increasing workers number can increase checking time. Default: ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin.ONE_CPU.

• vue boolean: If true, the linter and compiler will process VueJs single-file-component (.vue) files. See the Vue section further down for information on how to correctly setup your project.

• useTypescriptIncrementalApi boolean: If true, the plugin will use incremental compilation API introduced in typescript 2.7. In this mode you can only have 1 worker, but if the changes in your code are small (like you normally have when you work in 'watch' mode), the compilation may be much faster, even compared to multi-threaded compilation.

• measureCompilationTime boolean: If true, the plugin will measure the time spent inside the compilation code. This may be useful to compare modes, especially if there are other loaders/plugins involved in the compilation. requires node 8+

• typescript string: If supplied this is a custom path where typescript can be found. Defaults to require.resolve('typescript').

Pre-computed consts:

• ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin.ONE_CPU - always use one CPU
• ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin.ALL_CPUS - always use all CPUs (will increase build time)
• ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin.ONE_CPU_FREE - leave only one CPU for build (probably will increase build time)
• ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin.TWO_CPUS_FREE - recommended - leave two CPUs free (one for build, one for system)

Different behaviour in watch mode

If you turn on webpacks watch mode the fork-ts-type-build-notifier-webpack-plugin will take care of logging type errors, not webpack itself. That means if you set silent: true you won't see type errors in your console in watch mode.

You can either set silent: false to show the logging from fork-ts-type-build-notifier-webpack-plugin or set async: false. Now webpack itself will log type errors again, but note that this can slow down your builds depending on the size of your project.

Notifier

You may already be using the excellent webpack-notifier plugin to make build failures more obvious in the form of system notifications. There's an equivalent notifier plugin designed to work with the fork-ts-type-build-webpack-plugin. It is the fork-ts-type-build-notifier-webpack-plugin and can be found here. This notifier deliberately has a similar API as the webpack-notifier plugin to make migration easier.

Known Issue Watching Non-Emitting Files

At present there is an issue with the plugin regarding the triggering of type-checking when a change is made in a source file that will not emit js. If you have a file which contains only interfaces and / or types then changes to it will not trigger the type checker whilst in watch mode. Sorry about that.

We hope this will be resolved in future; the issue can be tracked here.

Plugin Hooks

This plugin provides some custom webpack hooks (all are sync):

License

MIT