I’m re-organizing several unrelated typescript projects into a mono-repo structure. Currently I have a tsconfig.json file in each workspace, which are all identical. I would like to have a “common” tsconfig in the base folder which includes path names and completely remove ./packages/*/tsconfig.json. Here’s an example of my project structure:

packages/
| foo/
| | src/
| | | index.ts
| | package.json
| | tsconfig.json
| bar/
| | src/
| | | index.ts
| | package.json
| | tsconfig.json
| asd/
| | src/
| | | index.ts
| | package.json
| | tsconfig.json
package.json

./packages/foo/tsconfig.json (for example):

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "strict": true,
    "outDir": "dist",
    "declaration": true,
    "declarationDir": "types",
  },
  "include": [
    "src",
  ],
}

If I leave the file as-is, and move it to ./, then it cannot find any inputs, presumably because it is looking for ./src which doesn’t exist.

I would love to create a ./tsconfig.json like this:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "strict": true,
    "outDir": "$PWD/dist",
    "declaration": true,
    "declarationDir": "$PWD/types",
  },
  "include": [
    "$PWD/src",
  ],
}

Unfortunately, I get this error:

error TS18003: No inputs were found in config file '/<my_path>/tsconfig.json'. Specified 'include' paths were '["$PWD/src"]' and 'exclude' paths were '["$PWD/dist","$PWD/types"]'.

Is there a way I can have the paths within tsconfig auto-expand to whatever directory I’m working in or otherwise use a single tsconfig file for all my projects?