Referencing TypeScript Type Definitions
I hate referencing files. What I do is I just use the "excludes" option in tsconfig.json. This guarantees that all typings files will be included in my entire project and I won't ever have to use any <reference>.
Just use the following tsconfig and you should be good to go:
{ "compilerOptions": { "target": "es5", // or es6 "module": "system", "sourceMap": true, "declaration": true }, "exclude": [ "node_modules" ]}Here's my main file in that module. Notice that there're no references to any declaration file.