Exclude files from compilation TypeScript

To ignore a source file from compilation, add the exclude option from outside your compilerOptions in the tsconfig.json.

The default value for this option is:

[
    "node_modules",
    "bower_components",
    "jspm_packages",
    "<outDir>"
]

Example:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    ...,
  },
  "exclude": ["test-samples", "dist", "node_modules"]
}

See TSConfig reference for the exclude option