Comments don't seem to be allowed in the tsconfig.json file. See this article for why it is ok according to Douglas Crockford to add them to json config files.
This is the error I get when adding comments to my tsconfig.json file:
var typescript = require("gulp-typescript");
var typeScriptProject = ts.createProject("tsconfig.json");
Process terminated with code 0.
> cmd.exe /c gulp -b "C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1" --color --gulpfile "C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\Gulpfile.js" build-js
SyntaxError: Unexpected token /
at Object.parse (native)
at Function.createProject (C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\node_modules\gulp-typescript\release\main.js:195:40)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\Gulpfile.js:68:28)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Liftoff.handleArguments (C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\node_modules\gulp\bin\gulp.js:116:3)
at Liftoff.<anonymous> (C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\node_modules\gulp\node_modules\liftoff\index.js:192:16)
at module.exports (C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\node_modules\gulp\node_modules\liftoff\node_modules\flagged-respawn\index.js:17:3)
Process terminated with code 8.
at Liftoff.<anonymous> (C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\node_modules\gulp\node_modules\liftoff\index.js:185:9)
at C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\node_modules\gulp\node_modules\liftoff\index.js:159:9
at C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\node_modules\gulp\node_modules\v8flags\index.js:99:14
at C:\Test\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\node_modules\gulp\node_modules\v8flags\index.js:38:7
at process._tickCallback (node.js:419:13)
Comments don't seem to be allowed in the tsconfig.json file. See this article for why it is ok according to Douglas Crockford to add them to json config files.
This is the error I get when adding comments to my tsconfig.json file: