Tsconfig Build:Argument for '--lib' option must be: 'es5'

Attempting to build an angular 7 application in visual studio and receiving an exception regarding the tsconfig.json lib version.

Below is the current tsconfig.json


{
"compileOnSave": false,
"compilerOptions": {
"baseUrl": "./",
"outDir": "./dist/out-tsc",
"sourceMap": true,
"declaration": false,
"module": "es2015",
"moduleResolution": "node",
"emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
"experimentalDecorators": true,
"importHelpers": true,
"target": "es5",
"typeRoots": [
"node_modules/@types"
],
"lib": [
"es2018",
"dom"
]
}
}

Build Error


Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error Build:Argument for '--lib' option must be: 'es5', 'es6', 'es2015', 'es7', 'es2016', 'es2017', 'dom', 'dom.iterable', 'webworker', 'scripthost', 'es2015.core', 'es2015.collection', 'es2015.generator', 'es2015.iterable', 'es2015.promise', 'es2015.proxy', 'es2015.reflect', 'es2015.symbol', 'es2015.symbol.wellknown', 'es2016.array.include', 'es2017.object', 'es2017.sharedmemory', 'es2017.string' DocumentLibraryWeb C:\Users\Tim\Source\Repos\project-sparkle\Athena\DocumentLibraryWeb\tsc

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