tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es2016",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "lib": ["es2016", "DOM", "ESNext.AsyncIterable"],
    "baseUrl": "./",
    "declaration": true,
    "types": ["reflect-metadata", "node", "mocha", "chai"],
    "typeRoots": ["./node_modules/@types"],
    "outDir": "dist",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
    "strict": false,
    "paths": {
      "@shared": ["shared/index.ts"],
      "@shared/*": ["shared/*"],
      "@models": ["src/models/index.ts"],
      "@models/*": ["src/models/*"],
      "@config": ["src/config.ts"]
    }
  },
  "exclude": [
    /*
    Because we want to allow intellisense on tests, we don't exclude any test files (*.spec.ts).
    Instead we only on build using tsconfig.prod.json in order exclude the test files.
    */
    "angular-src",
    "src/tests",
    "node_modules",
    "dist"
  ]
}