tsconfig.json

{
  //We need to use tsconfig because of issue with vite-tsconfig-paths v4 that doest not recognize baseUrl in jsconfig
  "compilerOptions": {
    // this is implicitly set in a `jsconfig.json` so we have to do it manually here
    "allowJs": true,

    "outDir": "dist", // this essentially disables the compilation errors by telling vs code where files would be put if it were to compile (which it won't because this isn't a real typescript project)
    // Do these as normal to your liking for your project
    "baseUrl": "src"
  },

  // only treat files in here as js source (thus ignoring `node_modules` and your fake output directory above)
  "include": ["src"]
}