ability to override default settings of generated tsconfig.json

[skarode96]

🚀 Feature Request

Affected Languages

• TypeScript or Javascript
• Python
• Java
• .NET (C#, F#, ...)

General Information

• **JSII Version: *1.13.0 (build 385c325), typescript 3.9.7
• **Platform:Mac Os
• I may be able to implement this feature request

• This feature might incur a breaking change

Description

Currently Jsii only allows outDir and rootDir fields to be modified in jsii.tsc section, it should consider additional fields which can be configured. I am running into few issues which are caused due to default settings of tsconfig. It should take additional fields into consideration as well

Proposed Solution

[RomainMuller]

I have this idea where I'd like to allow folks to own their tsconfig.json and basically only have jsii enforce the configuration remains within certain boundaries (to ensure correct inter-operability). I reckon this would effectively solve your problem?

[RomainMuller]

Also see #1644

[markusl]

We'd like to see this implemented to be able to resolve the referenced issue in the 'projen' project.

[Hi-Fi]

Currently there's need to include (quite ugly) script to beginning of projens compile (and watch) task to allow compilation:
replace-in-file "lib: ['lib.es2019.d.ts']" "lib: ['lib.es2019.d.ts','lib.dom.d.ts']" node_modules/jsii/lib/compiler.js. So some configuration offering would be quite nice.