error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for...random paths.

Using https://github.com/atrauzzi/gerty on the branch hashi-gerty.

Basically anything that tries to do typescript gets a bunch of errors about not finding type definitions I never reference in any of my source files.

(For the simplest example, I do a yarn install and then ./node_modules/.bin/ts-node.)

PS C:\Users\atrauzzi\Development\atrauzzi\gerty> .\node_modules\.bin\ts-node
> console.log('hi');
error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for '.github'.
error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'build'.
error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'examples'.
error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'scripts'.
error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'src'.
error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'website'.

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Apologies, I have searched for this, but wasn’t able to find anything relevant or within the last few months.

What is happening and why am I getting these weird errors? Is there any way they can be improved if it is in fact something that I’ve done wrong?

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mattmccutchencommented, Oct 18, 2018

These errors occur when you have subdirectories of a typeRoots directory (in this case node_modules/@types) that do not contain index.d.ts files. I agree the error message is mysterious and should be improved.

In your case, the errors occur because your package.json specifies a package named @types/, which is a silly thing to do.

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blurkcommented, Oct 24, 2020

I have this error today! But the code still got compiled to js 😶 error image

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