Typescript typings not found

[aecz]

pnpm v0.39.0
node v6.5.0
OS Windows 7

Code to reproduce the issue:

mkdir typings-test
cd typings-test
pnpm install [email protected] mocha @types/mocha
mkdir test
cd ..

Create a test.ts file with the following content:

describe('Test', () => {    
    describe('run', () => {
        it('should run', () => {
            console.log('i run');
        });
    });
});

Then run:

node_modules/.bin/tsc test/test.ts
node_modules/.bin/mocha

Expected behavior:

• test.ts get compiled into test.js
• mocha runs and passed

Actual behavior:

• test.ts fails compilation with error 'Cannot find name describe'
• mocha does not find any test files (look for *.js)

I suggest we could copy the @types packages into node_modules instead of linking them. Seems to solve the issue as commented here: #394 (comment)

[zkochan]

I really hope this will be fixed on the TypeScript side... It would look really weird to have such hacks in the pnpm codebase

[zkochan]

Maybe we can fall back to npm for some "blacklist" of popular packages...

[aecz]

What about a flag --copy-typings or --no-link-typings ? Does not affect pnpm users and if Typescript fixes it then no need to set flag :)

[zkochan]

I understand, I am talking about the implementation. Seems like it will be the same that npm does, so we can just run npm install inside pnpm for those dependencies

[zkochan]

Maybe hard links would solve this issue.

[zkochan]

This is going to be fixed in TypeScript 2.1.0. If you use typescript@next, it will work already

[zkochan]

I am closing this because the latest TypeScript is 2.1.0 now and it has all the symlink issues solved. So this will work with the latest TypeScript