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Can't get type declarations to work in ES Module project

See original GitHub issue

I’ve read a bunch of other issues which gave me the impression that with the "type": "module" setup, it should work out of the box, but I’m clearly doing something else wrong.

The warning on the import statement is:

Could not find a declaration file for module 'pocketbase'. 's:/New folder (5)/pocketbase/node_modules/pocketbase/dist/pocketbase.es.mjs' implicitly has an 'any' type.

2022-11-30T22-21-54 Thanks in advance for any help with this.

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Created 10 months ago
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ganigeorgievcommented, Dec 6, 2022

The “fix” should be available with the v0.8.3 release.

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ganigeorgievcommented, Dec 6, 2022

I think I found the related TS issue - https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/50762.

It seems that the problem is with how the exports is resolved and ts for some reason makes a guess where the declaration file is located instead of loading it directly from the types prop (either in the root level or as part of an exports block; the position of the types key also seems to matter).

I’ll reopen the issue and will update sometime later the file extension to generate it with .mts.

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