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When I try to compile a .ts file I get the following error:

Module build failed: Error: Typescript emitted no output for C:\xampp\htdocs\node-api\src\js\server.ts. 
at successLoader (C:\xampp\htdocs\node-api\node_modules\ts-loader\dist\index.js:39:15)
at Object.loader (C:\xampp\htdocs\node-api\node_modules\ts-loader\dist\index.js:21:12)
For compiling I use the following config files.
Webpack:
const path = require( 'path' ),
    CleanWebpackPlugin = require( 'clean-webpack-plugin' );
module.exports = env => {
    return {
        mode: env.dev ? 'development' : 'production',
        entry: {
            'server': './src/js/server.ts'
        output: {
            path: __dirname,
            filename: './dist/js/[name].js',
        externals: '/node_modules',
        module: {
            rules: [
                    test: /\.js$/,
                    exclude: ['/node_modules/', '/src/scss/'],
                    use: [
                        'babel-loader'
                    test: /\.ts(x?)$/,
                    exclude: ['/node_modules/', '/src/scss/'],
                    use: [
                        'babel-loader',
                        'ts-loader',
                    test:  /\.json$/,
                    loader: 'json-loader'
        resolve: {
            extensions: ['.ts', '.tsx', '.js' ],
            alias: {
                '@': path.resolve(__dirname, './src/js')
        plugins: [
            new CleanWebpackPlugin(['./dist/js', './dist/css']),
Typescript:
    "compilerOptions": {
        "removeComments": true,
        "preserveConstEnums": true,
        "allowJs": true,
        "outDir": "./dist/js",
        "target": "es5",
        "moduleResolution": "node",
        "module": "es2015",
        "lib": [
            "es2015",
            "es2016"
    "exclude": [
        "node_modules"
Babel:
    "presets": [
            "env", {
                "targets": {
                    "node": "current"
        "stage-2", "es2015"
    "plugins": ["dynamic-import-node"]
As suggested in some other questions I've already changed the order of resolve extensions but that didn't solve it (.js before .ts) . Typescript 2.8.3 is used in combination with Node 8.11.1 and Mongoose 5.0.15 and compiled by Webpack 4.6. So I'm still wondering how to to solve the error mentioned above.
Please set noEmit to false in your tsconfig.json.
By default it sets to true, once we change it to false we may not get this error.
"noEmit": false
                I like this option, since it allows noEmit: true in tsconfig, which prevents output except during build. @BEvo it is available, but you may need to change use: 'ts-loader' to loader: 'ts-loader'.
– Joakim
                Apr 17, 2022 at 12:35
Using webpack 5 and Typescript 4.5, I can run an expressjs + prisma server with the following:
webpack.config.js:
const path = require('path');
module.exports = {
  entry: './src/index.ts',
  module: {
    rules: [
        test: /\.tsx?$/,
        use: [
            loader: 'ts-loader',
            options: {
              compilerOptions: {noEmit: false},
        exclude: /node_modules/,
  resolve: {
    extensions: ['.tsx', '.ts', '.js'],
  output: {
    filename: 'bundle.js',
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
tsconfig.json:
  "compilerOptions": {
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "strict": true,
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
    "noEmit": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "module": "CommonJS",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "resolveJsonModule": true,
    "jsx": "preserve",
    "incremental": true
  "include": [
    "**/*.ts"
  "exclude": [
    "node_modules"
Source: https://webpack.js.org/guides/typescript/
In my case I had to remove "emitDeclarationOnly": true from the tsconfig.json
(or just set it to false)
With this on, it will only output d.ts files and not JavaScript files.
Read more: https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#emitDeclarationOnly
                Exactly! That is the correct answer. Using webpack 5.76 and ts-loader 9.4 here. Thank you.
– danb4r
                Mar 17 at 21:35
        
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