What is compilerOptions for?

[mikelehen]

The docs say:

compilerOptions
Used to selectively override compiler options for generating documentation. Values set with this option will override options read from tsconfig.json.

And there is an example of overriding strictNullChecks. But what does it mean to override strictNullChecks for typedoc? I wouldn't expect a documentation generator to be doing null checks, so I wouldn't expect that to have any effect. In general I am curious why this option exists / when you would use it. The docs / example are confusing to me as-is.

[Gerrit0]

#1891 - the original implementing PR has a use case.

TypeDoc uses type information, so it runs the TS compiler. It can be useful to be able to configure it with different options than are present in the tsconfig

[mikelehen]

Thanks for the explanation! Sorry for not acknowledging it earlier. I wanted to create a PR against the docs, but was super slow to do so. Feel free to accept or reject as you see fit.