moduleDetection force compiler setting does not work
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Description
**Describe the bug**
Version: 25.0.0
**To Reproduce**
Create a simple project setting `moduleDetection` to `force` which should treat each source file as a module:
```ts
import { Project, ts } from 'ts-morph';
const project = new Project({
compilerOptions: {
module: ts.ModuleKind.ESNext,
moduleDetection: ts.ModuleDetectionKind.Force,
},
useInMemoryFileSystem: true,
});
project.createSourceFile('a.ts', `const a = 'a'`);
project.createSourceFile('b.ts', `const a = 'a'`);
project.getPreEmitDiagnostics().forEach((diagnostic) => {
console.log(diagnostic.getMessageText());
});
```
However, this will not work as expected and produce type errors. Here is a [StackBlitz Node.js project](https://stackblitz.com/edit/stackblitz-starters-esuaovhj?file=index.ts&view=editor) reproducing the issue along with using the TypeScript compiler directly which works as expected.
**Expected behavior**
The `moduleDetection` compiler setting should be respected and not produce diagnostics when set to `force`.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the Project setup using compilerOptions, createSourceFile, and getPreEmitDiagnostics shown in the reproduction, then compare its behavior with the direct TypeScript compiler example linked in the issue. Done means setting moduleDetection to Force prevents the duplicate top-level declaration diagnostics for the two in-memory files.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100