dev-scripts path issue on Windows

[zaaakher]

Describe the bug
Running npm run gen throws the following error on Windows:

To Reproduce

• Be on Windows 10
• Run npm install
• Run npm run gen from the root of the project or from examples dir
• See the same error as the screenshot above

Misc

• Node version: 18.20.3
• Package manager: pnpm
• Browser: Chrome
• I'm a sponsor and would appreciate if you could look into this sooner than later 💖

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I was hitting my head for an hour trying to figure this one out. When I comment out fs.writeFileSync the error is gone, and this seems to be originating from the way we're getting the path/dir :

const dir = path.parse(import.meta.url.replace("file://", "")).dir;

This issue is in every instance of the above code, in gen.ts, genDocs.ts, and util.ts

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I was only able to generate the example code in #954 using my MacOS. So this issue is exclusively on Windows.

[jkcs]

need change

import { fileURLToPath } from "url";

const dir = path.parse(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)).dir;

[zaaakher]

@jkcs That silenced the error but it doesn't seem to be actually generating the examples.gen.tsx due to getExampleProjects not finding any example files due to it not knowing the exact path

[jkcs]

try this：https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/pull/818/files#diff-93421da21c480705d1154839957c6737a254abe9cc85a0e91f792ce42627e17e

[zaaakher]

try this：https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/pull/818/files#diff-93421da21c480705d1154839957c6737a254abe9cc85a0e91f792ce42627e17e

That only silenced the errors. But unfortunately it can't read any example directories which makes it output an empty example object in examples.gen.tsx

[matthewlipski]

Ah yeah, I was also running into this when I was working on Windows way back. Basically, node:path handles Windows and MacOS paths pretty differently and it's just kind of a pain. Unfortunately the solution that was most convenient for me was removing all path calls and replacing them with hardcoded strings:(

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🟢 @jkcs		#970

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/attempt #955

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