Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild, need to find a way to delay execution of tsc

[ViRuSTriNiTy]

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Hi there,

I am using Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild to compile .ts files to .js files in my project. But additionally, I use NTypewriter.SourceGenerator to generate .ts files from C# code. These .ts files should be compiled to .js in one run, meaning I don't want to have to build twice to get a fresh .js.

When using diagnostic verbosity on building the project, I can see that NTypewriter.SourceGenerator is executed when the CoreCompile target executes, the same seems to apply to Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild. So, both source generator and tsc are executed at the same time and since tsc is somewhat slower, it cannot catch the output of the source generator in time.

To somehow get it working, I thought about changing the execution order of the tasks by adding

<Target Name="EnforceTypeScriptCompileAfterSourceGenerators" BeforeTargets="PreComputeCompileTypeScriptWithTSConfig" DependsOnTargets="CoreCompile" />

to the project. This seems to work fine.

Is this the right approach or can I solve the issue in another / better way?

So lonG

[RyanCavanaugh]

This is really more of an MSBuild question and we're not experts on that. If it works, seems good, though?

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[ViRuSTriNiTy]

Side note:

Unfortunately, using the target configuration as described in the initial post breaks resx functionality. For now, the only solution is to either build twice to get fresh js files or move the resources to a separate project. In case NuGet packages are used, the separate project can then be automatically included, see https://josef.codes/dotnet-pack-include-referenced-projects.