Nativescript: With tns-core-modules.es2016 nothing compiles to JS

[neonwarp]

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After changing to es2016 in references.d.ts nothing compiles to JavaScript.

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

Both

Please provide the following version numbers that your issue occurs with:

• CLI: 2.4.2
• Cross-platform modules: 2.6.0-2017-01-16-5416 but I tried with previous versions as well
• Runtime(s): iOS 2.4.0, Android 2.4.1
• Plugin(s): none

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After updating my "references.d.ts" file to use "./node_modules/tns-core-modules/tns-core-modules.es2016.d.ts" none of the tns commands are compiling TypeScript to JavaScript so the app will crash with "Could not find module './'." error.

I want to use "tns-platform-declarations" to marshall native code, as far as I know I need this setup but the documentation has nothing mentioned about it.

Is there code involved? If so, please share the minimal amount of code needed to recreate the problem.

Here is my "tsconfig.json"

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "module": "commonjs",
        "target": "es5",
        "removeComments": true,
        "experimentalDecorators": true,
        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
        "noEmitHelpers": true,
        "noEmitOnError": true,
        "lib": [
            "es2016"
        ]
    },
    "exclude": [
        "node_modules",
        "platforms",
        "**/*.aot.ts"
    ],
    "include": [
        "typings-i386/*",
        "Interop.d.ts"
    ]
}

Thank you!

[NickIliev]

@neonwarp

Apart from the settings in _tsconfig.json_ your _references.d.ts_ should look like this:

/// <reference path="./node_modules/tns-core-modules/tns-core-modules.es2016.d.ts" />

/// <reference path="./node_modules/tns-platform-declarations/ios.d.ts" />
/// <reference path="./node_modules/tns-platform-declarations/android.d.ts" />

Here is the README of tns-platform-declarations and here is the article section about enabling IntelliSense in the documentation (not live but in the master of the documentation branch - will go live with or next release). Hope that solves your issue - let me know if you need further assistance!

[neonwarp]

Thank you for your answer.
I realised if I remove the include ("typings-i386/*", "Interop.d.ts") from tsconfig.json and add "skipLibCheck: true" it will solve all my problems.
However I needed to remove all the platforms, reset the emulators and install everything again.

[kt215]

I had to set skipLibCheck=true, otherwise I saw lots of TS2304 errors during compilation. NS 2.5.0, TS 2.1.6

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