feat: support tsconfig references

Author: sushruth

src/legacy/config/config-set.ts

@@ -554,9 +554,7 @@ export class ConfigSet {
     let basePath = normalizeSlashes(this.rootDir)
     const ts = this.compilerModule
     // Read project configuration when available.
-    const configFileName: string | undefined = resolvedConfigFile
-      ? normalizeSlashes(resolvedConfigFile)
-      : ts.findConfigFile(normalizeSlashes(this.rootDir), ts.sys.fileExists)
+    const configFileName: string | undefined = this._findConfigFile(resolvedConfigFile)
     if (configFileName) {
       this.logger.debug({ tsConfigFileName: configFileName }, 'readTsConfig(): reading', configFileName)
 
@@ -576,6 +574,51 @@ export class ConfigSet {
     }
 
     // parse json, merge config extending others, ...
+    return this._parseJsonConfigFileContent(config, basePath, configFileName)
+  }
+
+  protected _findConfigFile(resolvedConfigFile?: string) {
+    const ts = this.compilerModule
+
+    const configFileName: string | undefined = resolvedConfigFile
+      ? normalizeSlashes(resolvedConfigFile)
+      : ts.findConfigFile(normalizeSlashes(this.rootDir), ts.sys.fileExists)
+
+    return this._findConfigFileInReferences(configFileName)
+  }
+
+  protected _findConfigFileInReferences(configFileName?: string) {
+    const ts = this.compilerModule
+    const parsedConfig = this._parseJsonConfigFileContent(undefined, this.rootDir, configFileName)
+
+    if (this._checkIfconfigIncludesTestFiles(parsedConfig)) return configFileName
+
+    if (parsedConfig.projectReferences) {
+      for (const ref of parsedConfig.projectReferences) {
+        const filePath = ts.resolveProjectReferencePath(ref)
+
+        if (ts.sys.fileExists(filePath)) {
+          const parsedRefConfig = this._parseJsonConfigFileContent(undefined, this.rootDir, filePath)
+
+          if (this._checkIfconfigIncludesTestFiles(parsedRefConfig)) {
+            return ref.path
+          } else {
+            return this._findConfigFileInReferences(ref.path)
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    return configFileName
+  }
+
+  protected _checkIfconfigIncludesTestFiles(parsedConfig?: ts.ParsedCommandLine) {
+    return parsedConfig ? parsedConfig.fileNames.some((path) => this.isTestFile(path)) : false
+  }
+
+  protected _parseJsonConfigFileContent(config: unknown, basePath: string, configFileName?: string) {
+    const ts = this.compilerModule
+
     return ts.parseJsonConfigFileContent(config, ts.sys, basePath, undefined, configFileName)
   }