Cannot get types for `require(...)` style imports with tsgo (but can with regular ts)

[Zlatkovsky]

In a JS file (in my case, a webpack.config.js) of a project, I have a variable declaration that does a require of another package in the same repo:

const CssPrependClassPlugin =
  require('<myToolsPackage>/lib/webpack/CssPrependClassPlugin').CssPrependClassPlugin;

The <myToolsPackage> is compiled with "type": "commonjs" in the package.json, and "module": "node16", "moduleResolution": "node16", "verbatimModuleSyntax": false in its tsconfig. This combination works well, at least with the regular TypeScript engine.

With the regular TypeScript engine, I am able to get IntelliSense for that plugin, as well as alerts of invalid/incomplete input:

But with tsgo, the variable just resolves to any, and yields no errors:

Other IntelliSense still works in the file, e.g.,

[jakebailey]

Can you provide a repro we can test?

[Zlatkovsky]

@jakebailey , it would take some time to set up a simple repro; but I am happy to show it to you on the [rather large] internal repo where the issue occurred. Feel free to reach out to me via email/Teams; I also work at Microsoft, so just find me in the directory.

[jakebailey]

It's possible I just fixed this in #1195, can you retry this in the next nightly build (tomorrow)?

If that's not it, #1189 may also potentially fix this.

Alternatively, build main or #1189 and point "typescript.native-preview.tsdk" at built/local in the repo.

[Zlatkovsky]

Yep, the latest nightly build fixed it. Awesome!