[BUG]: Broken API (0.5.58 → 0.5.64) : ERROR TS2307 - Cannot find module 'xxx' or its corresponding type declarations

[Mara-Li]

What happened?

When updating in my own plugin the dataview package to 0.5.59, TS can't found any declaration for Obsidian-dataview.

Translation:

Try npm i --save-dev @types/obsidian-dataview if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing `declare module 'obsidian-dataview';
ERROR TS7016 Could not find a declaration file for module 'obsidian-dataview" […]

Spotted that the two last version doesn't have the main.d.ts file:

• For 0.5.59
• For 0.5.58

Comparison to 0.5.56, where libs contains everything.

DQL

/

JS

No response

Dataview Version

0.5.58 - 0.5.56

Obsidian Version

Not relevant

OS

Windows

[Mara-Li]

Updating to 0.5.60 should help, but now, any import lead to "any" and opening the index.d.ts & other files leads to that :

Error (TS2307)
error TS2307: Cannot find module 'xxxx'

My tsconfig:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "baseUrl": "./",
    "inlineSourceMap": true,
    "inlineSources": true,
    "module": "ESNext",
    "target": "ES6",
    "allowJs": true,
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "importHelpers": true,
    "isolatedModules": true,
    "resolveJsonModule": true,
    "strict":true,
    "lib": [
      "DOM",
      "ES5",
      "ES6",
      "ES7",
      "ES2021",
      "ES2022"
    ],
  },
  "include": [
    "**/*.ts"
  ]
}

[Mara-Li]

Bug remains in 0.5.61

[Mara-Li]

Remains in 0.5.64

[Mara-Li]

[cfilipov]

I'm having the same issue. I did a fresh clone of the obsidian-sample-plugin repo and followed the instruction for adding the dataview api to the plugin and getting the same problems listed above.

[cfilipov]

As @Lisandra-dev pointed out this was broken after 0.5.56. From what I can see, in the following release, a dependency on ttypescript was removed and a misconfiguration in the rollup.config.js caused types to go missing (#2073) for few releases until it was fixed in 0.5.60 (#2074). However, from 0.5.60 and onwards the imports in the generated d.ts files are no longer relative paths, causing module resolution to fail resulting in importing those types as any as shown above.

Note the difference between the imports in index.d.ts (0.5.56) vs index.d.ts (0.5.60).

As a temporary workaround I manually edited the imports in the d.ts files in node_modules to use relative imports and that resolved the issue. Of course this will revert to the error when you wipe node_modules or do a clean install.

I don't know what a real fix to this would be. I'm assuming the removal of ttypescript had something to do with it but I'm not familiar with that package. Perhaps setting paths in tsconfig-lib.json?

[Mara-Li]

My methods to fix this on my side:
https://github.com/ObsidianPublisher/obsidian-github-publisher/blob/e2e3738541d0188ae0f90397837395ee0c8f2a0b/tsconfig.json#L4-L10

[dstengle]

I needed to make additional paths beyond the above but now I'm down to an error about LocalForage. I'm just trying to use in node, not an obsidian plugin.

[Mara-Li]

Any update…?

[mnaoumov]

I've got some workarounds

tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "paths": {
      "*": [
        "./node_modules/obsidian-dataview/lib/*"
      ]
    }
}

Regarding LocalForage issue, it's solved by adding somewhere in your code

import "localforage";