exclude subdirectories in tsconfig.json

Looks like this is a problem with typescript being unable to exclude paths/patterns that belong to deeper dir structure. Its still a problem with "typescript@^3.4.5".

To fix this I started cleaning my Dist dir with "rimraf dist" before every test run.

"test:unit": "npm run clean && stencil test --spec --snapshot",

I know its a hack, but works.

I just installed and tested the latest version of TypeScript for Visual Studio 2015 (1.8.6 at the moment), and I can confirm that this problem has been fixed in the latest release.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48593

[Edit] Be sure to also do an npm update -g typescript

Try with:

 "exclude": [
     "node_modules",
     "public",
     "typings/browser.d.ts",
     "typings/browser/**"
 ]