@types/uuid references @types/node

Unfortunately I’m trying to use this library with Typescript, so I need to use @types/uuid, but that contains a reference to Buffer in globals.d.ts which means it pulls in @types/node, which breaks my build. I’m writing code for browsers, not node.

There would be a few possible fixes for this, including just removing the reference to Buffer and just using Array / ArrayLike - or creating an interface for Buffer instead of pulling in the one from node…

[sam-s4s]

Oh that would be excellent 😃

So the problem for me is purely in the DefinitelyTyped @types/uuid definition from what I can tell. Inside that type it pulls in a reference to @types/node, because of Buffer - which is located in the node globals.d.ts.

But as I’m doing browser development (not making a node app) I can’t use anything from here, and the presence of those types breaks things like setTimeout (makes its return type NodeJS.Timer instead of number).

This is a problem that has come up a few times before in other projects, and it’s one of the pains of the ecosystem 😦 It normally just requires someone to sort of the types to remove that dependency.

Let me know if you need any more info, and thank you for the reply!

[ctavan]

@types/uuid@7.0.0 has finally been released and should fix this issue. Feel free to create a new issue if you feel that this problem has not been solved yet.