[BUG]: Option 'allowImportingTsExtensions' can only be used when either 'noEmit' or 'emitDeclarationOnly' is set

[faisal-urrehman]

react-native environment setup

• I verified that I have not react-native-cli installed globally and be up to date about the React Native environment setup.

Description

When creating the react native project using the npx @react-native-community/cli@latest init test_tcm_boilerplate --template @thecodingmachine/react-native-boilerplate command and selecting No for the question Using typescript, I got the following error:

plugins/compile-js/tsconfig.build.json:3:3 - error TS5096: Option 'allowImportingTsExtensions' can only be used when either 'noEmit' or 'emitDeclarationOnly' is set.

3   "compilerOptions": {
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Found 1 error in plugins/compile-js/tsconfig.build.json:3

Version

whatever version this command uses npx @react-native-community/cli@latest init test_tcm_boilerplate --template @thecodingmachine/react-native-boilerplate

Do you use TypeScript?

None

On which OS this issue appear on?

None

Desktop OS

macOS Sequoia 15.3.1

[faisal-urrehman]

why does it still uses typescript even though i have selected No

[ikevinsolomon]

Same issue here.

[JeremyDolle]

I will check that.

BTW it's using Typescript because the code base is in TS. when you choose to not use TS, we use tsc to transpile Typescript into Javascript code and after that Typescript is removed ;)

[JeremyDolle]

It should be fixed in the new version. feel free to re-open