diff --git a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/gulpfile.js b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/gulpfile.js
index 0080ff498..f3a6410d7 100644
--- a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/gulpfile.js
+++ b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/gulpfile.js
@@ -21,17 +21,18 @@ gulp.task('npm.pack', gulp.series(
 
 //------------Main------------
 
-var buildTask = gulp.series(
+var buildTask = (tsProject = 'tsconfig.json') => gulp.series(
     () => gulp.src(TEMPLATES_FILES_PATTERN).pipe(gulp.dest(path.join(DIST_PATH, 'templates'))),
     () => gulp.src(SRC_FILES_PATTERN)
         .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
-        .pipe(typescript('tsconfig.json'))
+        .pipe(typescript(tsProject))
         .pipe(sourcemaps.write('.'))
         .pipe(gulp.dest(DIST_PATH))
 );
 
-gulp.task('build', buildTask);
-gulp.task('default', buildTask);
+gulp.task('build', buildTask());
+gulp.task('build:local', buildTask('tsconfig.local.json'));
+gulp.task('default', buildTask());
 
 
 //------------Testing------------
diff --git a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/package.json b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/package.json
index ae292dc92..c103be81c 100644
--- a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/package.json
+++ b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "author": "Developer Express Inc.",
   "name": "devextreme-angular-generator",
-  "version": "2.1.1",
+  "version": "2.1.2",
   "description": "Angular UI and visualization components based on DevExtreme widgets",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   "scripts": {
     "gulp": "npx --node-options='--max_old_space_size=8048' gulp",
     "build": "npm run gulp -- build",
+    "build:local": "npm run gulp -- build:local",
     "test": "npm run gulp -- test",
     "test:dev": "npm run gulp -- run.tests",
     "pack": "npm run gulp -- build && npm run gulp -- npm.pack"
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@
     "@types/dot": "^1.1.5",
     "@types/jasmine": "2.8.19",
     "@types/mkdirp": "^0.5.2",
-    "@types/node": "~8.10.66",
+    "@types/node": "^18.17.5",
     "@types/yargs": "^6.6.0",
     "del": "^2.2.2",
     "gulp": "^4.0.2",
diff --git a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/component-names-generator.ts b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/component-names-generator.ts
index 2a3551a10..bf00e588c 100644
--- a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/component-names-generator.ts
+++ b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/component-names-generator.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import fs = require('fs');
 import path = require('path');
 
 export default class ComponentNamesGenerator {
-    private _encoding = 'utf8';
+    private _encoding: BufferEncoding = 'utf8';
 
     private _config;
 
diff --git a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/dot-generator.ts b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/dot-generator.ts
index ce124fce2..d691cc4e9 100644
--- a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/dot-generator.ts
+++ b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/dot-generator.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export function createTemplateFromString(templateString: string) {
 }
 
 export default class DoTGenerator {
-    private _encoding = 'utf8';
+    private _encoding: BufferEncoding = 'utf8';
     createTemplate(templateFilePath: string) {
         logger('Create doT template from ' + templateFilePath);
         let templateString = fs.readFileSync(templateFilePath, this._encoding);
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ export default class DoTGenerator {
                 let filePath = path.join(metadataFolderPath, fileName);
 
                 logger('Read data from ' + filePath);
-                let data = fs.readFileSync(filePath, this._encoding);
+                let data = fs.readFileSync(filePath, { encoding: this._encoding });
                 logger('Apply template');
                 let result = template(JSON.parse(data));
                 const widgetName = path.parse(filePath).name;
diff --git a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/facade-generator.ts b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/facade-generator.ts
index d6ebf5b48..abcef3874 100644
--- a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/facade-generator.ts
+++ b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/facade-generator.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import logger from './logger';
 import inflector = require('inflector-js');
 
 export default class FacadeGenerator {
-    private _encoding = 'utf8';
+    private _encoding: BufferEncoding = 'utf8';
     generate(config) {
         Object.keys(config.facades).forEach(facadeFilePath => {
             logger('Generate facade: ' + facadeFilePath);
diff --git a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/metadata-generator.ts b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/metadata-generator.ts
index b9704fc65..6e73055f7 100644
--- a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/metadata-generator.ts
+++ b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/metadata-generator.ts
@@ -111,10 +111,10 @@ export interface IObjectStore {
 }
 
 export class FSObjectStore implements IObjectStore {
-    private _encoding = 'utf8';
+    private _encoding: BufferEncoding = 'utf8';
     read(filePath) {
         logger(`Read from file: ${filePath}`);
-        let dataString = fs.readFileSync(filePath, this._encoding);
+        let dataString = fs.readFileSync(filePath, { encoding: this._encoding });
         logger('Parse data');
         return JSON.parse(dataString);
     }
diff --git a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/module.facade-generator.ts b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/module.facade-generator.ts
index c07fa3e6e..2e58c8822 100644
--- a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/module.facade-generator.ts
+++ b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/src/module.facade-generator.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import logger from './logger';
 let inflector = require('inflector-js');
 
 export default class FacadeGenerator {
-    private _encoding = 'utf8';
+    private _encoding: BufferEncoding = 'utf8';
 
     prepareModuleName(fileName: string) {
         fileName = fileName.replace(/-/g, '_');
diff --git a/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/tsconfig.local.json b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/tsconfig.local.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fd367fadc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devextreme-angular-generator/tsconfig.local.json
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "baseUrl": "./",
+        "skipLibCheck": true,
+        "target": "ES5",
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "moduleResolution": "node",
+        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
+        "experimentalDecorators": true,
+        "sourceMap": true,
+        "inlineSources": true,
+        "removeComments": false,
+        "declaration": true,
+        "noUnusedParameters": true,
+        "noUnusedLocals": true
+    }
+}