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Unable to compile in a typescript project

See original GitHub issue

What are you doing?

I’m compiling my typescript project.

tsc

What do you expect to happen?

Compile successfully

What is actually happening?

Failing with failed type declaration missings.

node_modules/sequelize/types/lib/promise.d.ts(2,27): error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'bluebird'. '/opt/api/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/bluebird.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
  Try `npm install @types/bluebird` if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing `declare module 'bluebird';`
node_modules/sequelize/types/lib/utils/validator-extras.d.ts(2,22): error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'validator'. '/opt/api/node_modules/validator/index.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
  Try `npm install @types/validator` if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing `declare module 'validator';`

Dialect: any Sequelize version: 5.1.0 Tested with latest release: Yes

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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SimonSchickcommented, Mar 17, 2019

We haven’t defined these packages as dependencies to avoid bloating non-ts installations, please install @types/bluebird and @types/validator separately.

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WikiRikcommented, Dec 2, 2021

Ah yes, having the types in the devDependencies when they might also be used in production might not be the best thing. I will discuss this with the team. Thanks for your quick response