We recently went through this hell converting a NodeJS codebase to TypeScript. One reason many people willingly enter this hellscape is because we need ES modules for typescript.
I say “need” because Typescript wont ingest types from “required” files, you have to import them as modules.
So before we converted a single file to TS we has to audit all commonjs imports and exports to convert them to ES modules.
I agree wholeheartedly that the end result was a fools errand. I would have rather spent the time adding support for importing types via a require which for some reason returns any “any” today.
I say “need” because Typescript wont ingest types from “required” files, you have to import them as modules.
So before we converted a single file to TS we has to audit all commonjs imports and exports to convert them to ES modules.
I agree wholeheartedly that the end result was a fools errand. I would have rather spent the time adding support for importing types via a require which for some reason returns any “any” today.