typescript: Undocumented outputToFilesystem option emits warning if not present

[danopia]

• Rollup Plugin Name: @rollup/plugin-typescript
• Rollup Plugin Version: 8.3.3

Documentation Is:

• Missing
• Needed
• Confusing
• Not Sure?

Please Explain in Detail...

When configured minimally (so, using defaults), the plugin is printing a warning:

(!) Plugin typescript: @rollup/plugin-typescript: outputToFilesystem option is defaulting to true.

This option is not documented on the README and the message doesn't have any further information. It's not clear what the options are to remove the warning.

Your Proposal for Changes

1. The message could be more detailed: What did I do to introduce this warning? Is it related to a tsconfig.json option? Is there documentation it can link to, or a recommended action to take?
2. The option should be added to the other options in the plugin documentation. When is it needed? What are the reasons to use either false or true here? Are there other possible values? Since what version has this flag been soft-required?

References

• Plugin typescript: @rollup/plugin-typescript: outputToFilesystem option is defaulting to true. #1099

[shellscape]

Happy to review a PR with the changes you'd like to see.

[mistic100]

@shellscape the question is more : what needs to be done to remove the warning ?

[vividlearningsystems]

I just ran into this today when trying to turn on incremental builds. When "incremental" is set to true in tsconfig this warning appears. At the same time a new ".rollup.cache" folder is created in project root. Could this warning be related to that?

[stale]

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[ctretyak]

I think it should be reopened

[Bloodsucker]

This ticket should be reopen and I believe it is related to Typescript Project References.

[ericmasiello]

➕ Can this be reopened? This is still a problem

[shellscape]

people, please read the bot message. it will be reopened when the community steps up to help.

[vpalos]

As a workaround, if you don't really need incremental compiling for TypeScript, just set incremental to false in your tsconfig.json. This did the trick for me. Thanks @vividlearningsystems for pointing that out.

[quisido]

For reference, here is the IntelliSense for the property:

When set to false, force non-cached files to always be emitted in the output directory.output If not set, will default to true with a warning.

[segevfiner]

Generally the behavior without this option set is technically correct despite the warning. The file outputted outside the bundle, the tsbuildinfo is not really part of the output, and as such, writing it using Rollup's emitFile doesn't matter and it can be written to the disk directly. But, this presents a warning to the user. On the other hand, enabling outputToFilesystem will write all output directly to the filesystem, bypassing Rollup, which is not desired. So maybe we just need an option to disable the warning, or otherwise not output it for files that are safe to write directly to the filesystem?

[NotYoojun]

Please reopen this issue. I really need incremental to be true for my project since it takes a really long time when building.