microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript

Typescript Watch - Cleaning Target Files on Source Deletion

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Since Aug 23, 2017.

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Description

Can we add a compiler option to also glob-delete a target file when the source file is removed? We run into this constantly and have to gulp clean frequently - it makes the usage of tsc -watch pointless as we have to constantly purge the output directory.

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