Syntastic doesn’t work well with typescript in vim
I ran into some issues with syntax checking for typescript code in vim. I have been using Syntastic for quite a while, and it has been very helpful for all the other languages I work with. But this time, it seems that I have run into a bug or issue with it.
Basically the issue is it can not properly support the different target for a typescript code. Typescript uses a tsconfig.json to store the compilation target information and many other options. However, Syntastic doesn’t honor these configuration. And it will display some compilation errors, which is quite annoying.
By a little bit searching, I found I am not alone, here is a similar issue reported in github.
Inspired by this post, what I did is to add the following line in my .vimrc:
let g:syntastic_typescript_tsc_args = "-t ES5 -m commonjs --experimentalDecorators --emitDecoratorMetadata --sourceMap true --moduleResolution node"
Aparently, this is not ideal! What if I have projects with different targets or configurations. It would be ideal if these plugins could use the settings in tsconfig.json. Before that, I might consider to use vscode for typescript code.
The following is the link you can find the compiler options for typescript:
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