feat(*): add glob warning

README.md

@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ Use internal file cache. Useful with Babel, when processing takes a long time to
 
 Directory when cache is stored.
 
+### resolveGlobs *(string) (default=true)*
+
+Invoke glob resolver using 'filesGlob' and 'exclude' sections of `tsconfig`.
+
 ## Compiler options
 
 You can pass compiler options inside loader query string or in tsconfig file.

package.json

@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
     "loader-utils": "^0.2.6",
     "lodash": "^3.10.0",
     "object-assign": "^2.1.1",
+    "parse-json": "^2.2.0",
+    "strip-bom": "^2.0.0",
+    "strip-json-comments": "^2.0.0",
     "tsconfig": "^2.1.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {

src/host.ts

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ export interface ICompilerOptions extends ts.CompilerOptions {
     useCache?: boolean;
     cacheDirectory?: string;
     files?: any;
+    resolveGlobs?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface IOutputFile extends ts.OutputFile {

src/instance.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { loadLib, formatErrors } from './helpers';
 import { ICompilerInfo } from './host';
 import { createResolver } from './deps';
 import { createChecker } from './checker';
-import { rawToTsCompilerOptions } from './tsconfig-utils';
+import { rawToTsCompilerOptions, parseContent, tsconfigSuggestions } from './tsconfig-utils';
 import makeResolver from './resolver';
 
 let pkg = require('../package.json');
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ export function ensureInstance(webpack: IWebPack, options: ICompilerOptions, ins
 
     let tsImpl: typeof ts;
     try {
-        tsImpl = require(compilerName);
+        tsImpl = require(compilerPath);
     } catch (e) {
         console.error(e)
         console.error(COMPILER_ERROR);
@@ -128,12 +128,21 @@ export function ensureInstance(webpack: IWebPack, options: ICompilerOptions, ins
         lib6: loadLib(lib6Path)
     };
 
+    _.defaults(options, {
+        resolveGlobs: true
+    });
+
     let configFilePath: string;
     let configFile: tsconfig.TSConfig;
     let folder = options.tsconfig || process.cwd();
     configFilePath = tsconfig.resolveSync(folder);
     if (configFilePath) {
-        configFile = tsconfig.readFileSync(configFilePath);
+        configFile = parseContent(fs.readFileSync(configFilePath).toString(), configFilePath);
+
+        if (options.resolveGlobs) {
+            tsconfigSuggestions(configFile);
+            configFile = tsconfig.readFileSync(configFilePath);
+        }
     }
 
     let tsFiles: string[] = [];

src/tsconfig-utils.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,49 @@
 import * as path from 'path';
+import * as colors from 'colors';
+import { TSConfig } from 'tsconfig';
+
+let parseJson = require('parse-json');
+let stripBom = require('strip-bom');
+let stripComments = require('strip-json-comments');
+
+const TSCONFIG_ERROR = colors.red(`\n\n[awesome-typescript-loader] You have \`resolveGlobs\` enabled and don't have an \`exclude\` directive in your tsconfig file. This WILL slow down your compilation. Please add:
+    {
+        // ...
+        "exclude": [
+            "node_modules",
+            "bower_components"
+        ]
+    }
+`);
+
+export function tsconfigSuggestions(config: TSConfig) {
+    let hasExclude = config.exclude && (
+        config.exclude.indexOf('node_modules') !== -1
+        || config.exclude.indexOf('./node_modules') !== -1
+    );
+
+    let hasGlobIgnore = config.filesGlob && (
+        config.filesGlob.some(item => item.indexOf('!node_modules') !== -1)
+        ||  !config.filesGlob.some(item => item.indexOf('!./node_modules') !== -1))
+
+    if (!hasExclude && !hasGlobIgnore) {
+        console.warn(TSCONFIG_ERROR);
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Parse `tsconfig.json` file.
+ */
+export function parseContent(contents: string, filename: string): TSConfig {
+    const data = stripComments(stripBom(contents))
+
+    // A tsconfig.json file is permitted to be completely empty.
+    if (/^\s*$/.test(data)) {
+        return {}
+    }
+
+    return parseJson(data, null, filename)
+}
 
 function buildEnumMap(tsImpl: typeof ts) {
     let typescriptEnumMap = {