[ipfs-http-client@52.0.2] Typescript compilation fails when package is imported

[rryter]

• Version:
  "ipfs-http-client": "52.0.2",

• Platform:
  Ubuntu 20.04

• Subsystem:
  Typescript 4.3.5

Severity:

Critical - Comilation fails as soon as the package is imported.

Description:

node_modules/ipfs-utils/dist/src/files/glob-source.d.ts:10:20
error TS2307: Cannot find module 'ipfs-unixfs/dist/src/types' or its corresponding type declarations.

10     mtime?: import("ipfs-unixfs/dist/src/types").MtimeLike | undefined;

So I checked the package in the node_modules, and there is indeed no dist folder.

Steps to reproduce the error:

npx typescript-starter
npm i ipfs-http-client

1. Create a new file
2. Import the Options Type

import { Options } from 'ipfs-http-client';
export interface InterfaceName {
  options: Options;
}

3. Try to compile.

Workaround

Add postinstall to the scripts in your npm package:

"postinstall": "npm run generate-types && cd node_modules/ipfs-unixfs && npm i --production"

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[achingbrain]

Looks like ipfs-utils needed it's types rebuilding with the new ESM version of ipfs-unixfs since the internal paths have changed.

This should be fixed by ipfs-utils@v8.1.6, just released - can you please delete your node_modules folder and reinstall, you should get the new version then.

[rryter]

It works. Thanks a lot. 🚀

[slwhitman]

I could not get workaround to work. Core error still exists. The import path is incorrect.

Currently: import("ipfs-unixfs/types/src/types")

Should be: import("ipfs-unixfs/src/types")