<p dir="auto">seriously, each tsconfig.json has to have its own folder in order to be referenced with <code class="notranslate">--project</code> parameter</p>
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<li><strong>What if I need 2 projects based on the same set of files?</strong></li>
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<p dir="auto">This would allow you to specify a tsconfig.json that has a different name.</p>
<p dir="auto">If you specify a directory, it should first try to resolve tsconfig.json. If it can't find it, it should find the first tsconfig*.json file</p>
<p dir="auto">References: <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="70177839" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2868" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2868/hovercard?comment_id=95262429&amp;comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2868#issuecomment-95262429">#2868 (comment)</a></p>