Allow to specify the tsconfig.json filename explicitly

[zpdDG4gta8XKpMCd]

currently VSCode uses the file with the exact name tsconfig.json in the folder as the project file for a typescript project,

i have a few other project files named differently for corresponding sub-projects inside the same folder, I wish there was a way to tell VSCode to use one of them rather then the default tsconfig.json

[dbaeumer]

@waderyan this first needs support in the tsserver IMO. We can't tell tsserver the name or location of a tsconfig.json.

[waderyan]

@Aleksey-Bykov thank you for opening this issue. I'm not sure I completely understand.

Can you provide a simple example of what you are describing?

Is it something like this?

MainProject/
--- tsconfig.json
--- SubProject-X/
------src/
------tsconfig.json
--- SubProject-Y/
------src/
------tsconfig.json

And your feature request is to have SubProject-Y be able to use MainProject/tsconfig.json?

[zpdDG4gta8XKpMCd]

no, i have it differently, in the folder structure that you showed there is no problem to compile a sub-project if the VSCode is run from under a sub-folder

my file structure looks like this:

- shared-libs
- shared-assets
- client-side
- server-side
- tsconfig.server.json
- tsconfig.client.json

I want to be able to focus either on tsconfig.client.json or tsconfig.server.json

[waderyan]

Interesting. Ok moving to TS repo.

[waderyan]

This issue was moved to microsoft/TypeScript#11224