How to disable ts-node?

Expected behaviour

• Write JavaScript code (.js files)
• Install Karma
• Write JavaScript test files (.js)
• everything works great!
• install ts-node and don’t expect anything to break.

Actual behaviour

installing ts-node causes previously-working tests to break, because Karma automatically uses ts-node, assuming that it is what I want.

Environment Details

• Karma version (output of karma --version): 4.0.1
• Relevant part of your karma.config.js file: N/A, there’s nothing about ts-node in there.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Described above.

As soon as I rm -rf node_modules/ts-node, errors go away.

Errors, for example:

19 06 2019 11:13:35.064:ERROR [config]: Invalid config file!
  TSError: ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript:
../trusktr+builder-js-package/config/karma.config.js:3:22 - error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'globby'. '/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+builder-js-package/node_modules/globby/index.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
  Try `npm install @types/globby` if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing `declare module 'globby';`

3 const glob = require('globby')
                       ~~~~~~~~
../trusktr+builder-js-package/config/karma.config.js:6:24 - error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'mkdirp'. '/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+builder-js-package/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
  Try `npm install @types/mkdirp` if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing `declare module 'mkdirp';`

6 const mkdirp = require('mkdirp') // mkdir -p
                         ~~~~~~~~
../trusktr+builder-js-package/config/karma.config.js:7:22 - error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'rimraf'. '/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+builder-js-package/node_modules/rimraf/rimraf.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
  Try `npm install @types/rimraf` if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing `declare module 'rimraf';`

7 const rmrf = require('rimraf') // rm -rf
                       ~~~~~~~~
../trusktr+builder-js-package/config/karma.config.js:8:19 - error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'regexr'. '/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+builder-js-package/node_modules/regexr/index.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
  Try `npm install @types/regexr` if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing `declare module 'regexr';`

8 const r = require('regexr').default
                    ~~~~~~~~
../trusktr+builder-js-package/config/karma.config.js:23:19 - error TS7006: Parameter 'file' implicitly has an 'any' type.

23 testFiles.forEach(file => {
                     ~~~~
../trusktr+builder-js-package/config/karma.config.js:45:48 - error TS7006: Parameter 'moduleName' implicitly has an 'any' type.

45                     ${nodeModulesToCompile.map(moduleName => {
                                                  ~~~~~~~~~~
../trusktr+builder-js-package/config/karma.config.js:96:27 - error TS7006: Parameter 'config' implicitly has an 'any' type.

96 module.exports = function(config) {
                             ~~~~~~
../trusktr+builder-js-package/config/karma.config.js:150:18 - error TS7006: Parameter 'fullname' implicitly has an 'any' type.

150 function dirname(fullname) {
                     ~~~~~~~~
../trusktr+builder-js-package/config/karma.config.js:157:27 - error TS7006: Parameter 'fileName' implicitly has an 'any' type.

157 function withoutExtention(fileName) {
                              ~~~~~~~~

    at createTSError (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:245:12)
    at reportTSError (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:249:19)
    at getOutput (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:362:34)
    at Object.compile (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:395:32)
    at Module.m._compile (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:473:43)
    at Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:827:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:476:12)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:685:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:620:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:723:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:14:16)
    at Object.parseConfig (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/karma/lib/config.js:351:22)
    at new Server (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/karma/lib/server.js:66:24)
    at Object.exports.run (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/karma/lib/cli.js:291:7)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/trusktr/src/trusktr+infamous/node_modules/karma/bin/karma:3:23)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:816:30)
Failed with exit code: 1

As you can see, tests break simply by installing ts-node in the project and not yet converting any tests to TypeScript.

I have a tsconfig.json file in the project, but used for other things at the moment.

It’d be nice to be able to tell Karma which tsconfig to use for test files, and to be able enable TypeScript support manually in the first place, so that there aren’t any surprises.

[trusktr]

Cool, I forked Karma, removed the register() call as in #3274, and can now get back to work!

[devoto13]

Re-opening as I still want to implement a sustainable solution for this use case.