Compiler API, working with project references

[duro]

I am working on a plugin for the serverless framework which will compile typescript projects which use project references. This requires me to programmatically execute the compiler in code.

I have been piecing things together using the Compiler API Wiki and a few other example projects, but none of these seem to take into account project references.

The problem I run into is that the referenced projects are not built prior to the main project, and so I get errors from the compiler like:

/Users/adamduro/Workspace/projects/freebird/serverless-test/services/user/src/handler.ts (2,28): Cannot find module '@freebird/response-output'.

I was able to gather from inspecting the src/tsc/tsc.ts file from the main TypeScript repo that there is a way to pass in the project references to a createProgram function, but this did not seem to be enough.

Here is an example of most of my programatic compile API code:

https://github.com/FreebirdRides/serverless-mono-test/blob/master/packages/serverless-plugin-typescript/lib/typescript.js

And the code in that file is executed here:

https://github.com/FreebirdRides/serverless-mono-test/blob/master/packages/serverless-plugin-typescript/lib/index.js

At the end of the day I'm just trying to replicate the functionality that running tsc -b . would produce when ran in this folder:

https://github.com/FreebirdRides/serverless-mono-test/tree/master/services/user

Any guidance anyone can provide? The compile API is a bit under documented now, and there is no mention of the project references anywhere.

[duro]

Seems this issue (#28640) answers my question. Can't be done yet.