error importing ipfs-core from TypeScript "Cannot find namespace 'fs'."

[gobengo]

• Version: 0.14.2

• Platform: Darwin MacBook-Pro.local 21.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.3.0: Wed Jan 5 21:37:58 PST 2022; root:xnu-8019.80.24~20/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101 arm64

• Subsystem:

• ipfs-core package

  • it's even possible that this is a quirk of how npm publish happens, since the error references node_modules/ipfs-utils/dist/src/files/glob-source.d.ts

Severity: High (library not usable in this context)

Description:

• Here is a reduced test case running on gh actions: https://github.com/gobengo/ipfs-core-esm-test/runs/5951490366?check_suite_focus=true

Note: this issue is similar to #4029 , but a different ts error so not the same

Steps to reproduce the error:

• start a new typescript project
• import * as IPFS from 'ipfs-core'
• try to tsc build
• see error

bengo@MacBook-Pro ~/dev/ipld-experiments/ipld-web3-storage ⚡  npm run build                                         

> ipld-web3-storage@1.0.0 build
> tsc

node_modules/ipfs-utils/dist/src/files/glob-source.d.ts:10:14 - error TS2503: Cannot find namespace 'fs'.

10     content: fs.ReadStream | undefined;
                ~~


Found 1 error in node_modules/ipfs-utils/dist/src/files/glob-source.d.ts:10

I tried clonging js-ipfs repo myself to npm link and find a fix, but npm install on my m1 mac fails because npm ERR! response status 404 Not Found on https://node-webrtc.s3.amazonaws.com/wrtc/v0.4.7/Release/darwin-arm64.tar.gz which is node-webrtc/node-webrtc#680

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[gobengo]

I was able to recreate this issue only against ipfs-utils, not ipfs-core. So I will open an issue/PR there.

The good news is I think I also have a patch for ipfs-utils that will fix it (based on npm link testing)

[callezenwaka]

Hi,
Any solution to this yet? Ran into same issue.

[jamesrwaugh]

@callezenwaka For now, adding "skipLibCheck": true to tsconfig compilerOptions worked for me.
As per #4029 (comment)

[gobengo]

reopening to track ipfs-core upgrading to the fixed ipfs-utils@9.0.6 (if needed)