[bug]: typescript errors when building with pnpm

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#41 opened on Aug 14, 2024 11 comments 2 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 65/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Active
Tech stack: node.js, typescript
Domain: build-system, cli, devtools

Research direction

Reproduce the issue by creating a plugin with init and running pnpm run build. Inspect TypeScript definition generation around server/src/controllers/index.ts, server/src/index.ts, and server/src/services/index.ts, along with the @strapi/pack-up entry point. Done means a newly initialized plugin builds successfully without TS2742 errors.

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Description

issue: bug severity: medium source: sdk-plugin

What version of `@strapi/sdk-plugin` are you using?

@strapi/sdk-plugin 5.1.0
pnpm 9.1.0

What's Wrong?

Building a plugin with pnpm doesn't work

➜  myplugin5 pnpm run build

> [email protected] build /Users/ben/dev/strapi/myplugin5
> strapi-plugin build

✔ Verified package.json
✔ Created build context
Building type files:
   entries:
    – myplugin5/admin/src/index.ts ./admin/src/index.ts -> ./dist/admin/src/index.d.ts
    – myplugin5/server/src/index.ts ./server/src/index.ts -> ./dist/server/src/index.d.ts
[ERROR]  server/src/controllers/index.ts:3:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  server/src/index.ts:19:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  server/src/services/index.ts:3:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  server/src/controllers/index.ts:3:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  server/src/services/index.ts:3:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  server/src/index.ts:19:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  server/src/index.ts:19:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  server/src/index.ts:19:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  server/src/index.ts:19:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  server/src/index.ts:19:1 - TS2742: The inferred type of 'default' cannot be named without a reference to '.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/types/dist/core'. This is likely not portable. A type annotation is necessary.
[ERROR]  Failed to compile TypeScript definitions
[ERROR] There seems to be an unexpected error, try again with --debug for more information 

 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                                                                                                                                                                                                            │
│   Error: Failed to compile TypeScript definitions                                                                                                                                                                          │
│       at /Users/ben/dev/strapi/myplugin5/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/pack-up/dist/index.js:835:19                           │
│       at Array.map (<anonymous>)                                                                                                                                                                                           │
│       at Observable._subscribe (/Users/ben/dev/strapi/myplugin5/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@strapi/pack-up/dist/index.js:813:22)   │
│       at Observable._trySubscribe (/Users/ben/dev/strapi/myplugin5/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/rxjs/dist/cjs/internal/Observable.js:41:25)                                                                  │
│       at /Users/ben/dev/strapi/myplugin5/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/rxjs/dist/cjs/internal/Observable.js:35:31                                                                                             │
│       at Object.errorContext (/Users/ben/dev/strapi/myplugin5/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/rxjs/dist/cjs/internal/util/errorContext.js:22:9)                                                                 │
│       at Observable.subscribe (/Users/ben/dev/strapi/myplugin5/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/rxjs/dist/cjs/internal/Observable.js:26:24)                                                                      │
│       at /Users/ben/dev/strapi/myplugin5/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/rxjs/dist/cjs/internal/Observable.js:86:19                                                                                             │
│       at new Promise (<anonymous>)                                                                                                                                                                                         │
│       at Observable.toPromise (/Users/ben/dev/strapi/myplugin5/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/rxjs/dist/cjs/internal/Observable.js:84:16)                                                                      │
│                                                                                                                                                                                                                            │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

To Reproduce

create a new plugin with init

then run pnpm run build

Expected Behaviour

plugin should build

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