error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'keyv'. For version 4.2.0

[nitish24p]

Type definition missing for 4.2.0
One of my projects has a dependency on keyv, when the typescript compiler runs it finds that 4.2.0 doesnt have the index.d.ts file.
There was a publish made 16 hours ago post which builds for me have started failing.
https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/keyv mentions the versions installed, and the package to the tar file is https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/keyv/-/keyv-4.2.0.tgz

Either i can force resolution to a lower version or maybe you could push 4.2.0 with the index.d.ts file or mention a migration strategy.

Thanks

Steps To reproduce

1. Clone https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-screens
2. npm install should fail

The failed message should say something around the line of bob build failed. This is caused by @react-native-community-package/bob, where it runs the tsc build command as mentioned on the bottom line and it will fail.

https://github.com/callstack/react-native-builder-bob/blob/v0.17.1/src/targets/typescript.ts#L130

[jaredwray]

@nitish24p - thanks and we are looking into this.

[jaredwray]

@nitish24p - one thing is that with the latest you should not be using the @types/keyv. have you tried removing it?

[nitish24p]

Hi @jaredwray that will be my last option since i will have to go and make updates to all libraries on which keyv is dependant on. But will want to keep that option open too

[jaredwray]

Do you know what specific libraries are referencing the older versions? Happy to dig in with you to get them updated.

[nitish24p]

So i have

My App
|
react-native-screens@2.17.1 **Custom Forked Version**
└─┬ release-it@13.7.2
  └─┬ got@11.8.2
    └─┬ @types/cacheable-request@6.0.2
      └── @types/keyv@4.2.0

So react-native-screens basically does a build which calls the typescript compiler and that fails.

[jaredwray]

@nitish24p - we have seen this a bunch as cacheable-request is now at version 10 and got is on 12. Both of them are now ESM native. If you upgrade react-native-screens to the latest release-it v15.5.0 it should solve it.

[vasudevan242]

Hi, i'm getting below error.
error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'keyv'.
I'm not sure for which package this dependency exists.

[vasudevan242]

i tried installing npm i @types/keyv@3.1.4 there is index.d.ts file

but for latest changes npm i @types/keyv i don't see index.d.ts file

[samwi]

Appears that Electron@latest via @electron/get@1.14.1 is using keyv@3.1.0

Might need to get Electron to update but it is broken for the time being

[jaredwray]

@samwi this looks pretty old. I also heard Electron is being deprecated correct?

[jaredwray]

@samwi and @vasudevan242 - would recommend either getting them to upgrade or seeing if you can pull the file directly from Keyv (https://github.com/jaredwray/keyv/blob/main/packages/keyv/src/index.d.ts) as we have not used @types/xxx for a while. Looks like they turned it off?

Also, the version of GOT is very old and if you upgrade that all will work.

[azmicirit]

@jaredwray could you publish @types/keyv@4.2.0 back please? all serverless framework versions are using at least got@11.8.5.

├─┬ serverless@2.72.3
│ ├─┬ @serverless/cli@1.6.0
│ ├─┬ @serverless/components@3.18.2
│ │ ├── got@11.8.5 deduped
│ ├─┬ @serverless/utils@5.20.3
│ │ ├── got@11.8.5 deduped

even if I update serverless framework to v3, latest serverless also uses got@11.8.5. I believe the millions of project will be affected and not able to be running after this removal.

[azmicirit]

@jaredwray After I updated my node version from v14 to v16, I could get a build successfully. I guess node v14 doesn't support ESM module import.

[alphmt]

@azmicirit It got removed in this issue: DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped#62793

Will this workaround mentioned in above issue works?

[nitish24p]

I had to explicitly had keyv at 3.1.14 as dev dependencies for this to work at the moment.

[azmicirit]

@alphmth I did same thing what @nitish24p did and updated node.js version to v16 and then it just worked.
But also overrides all @types/keyv dependencies in package.json as well.

"overrides": {
    "@types/keyv": "3.1.4"
}

[mmcshinsky-bitgo]

Even overrides isn't really a solution. Suggestion to:

• Un-deprecate @types/keyv: 4.2.0
• Remove keyv: 4.5.0 and promote 4.5.0 to 5.0.0 as a breaking change due to the Node v14 issues.

[mesner]

electron depends on electron/get, which is stuck on got@11 since got@12 only publishes ESM.
got@11 depends on the deprecated @types/cacheable-request, which has a dependency on @types/keyv@*, which grabs the latest (major) version of @types/keyv, which is v4.20 and doesn't include index.d.ts. This is the cause of the typescript error in this thread for me.

@jaredwray Would you please consider either deleting @types/keyv@4.2.0 and deprecating the prior version (@types/keyv@3.1.4) or publishing a new @types/keyv@4.2.1 that includes an index.d.ts file to not break typescript builds?

As an aside, I'd argue electron is the most active desktop ui framework and is definitely not deprecated. Take a look at its activity https://github.com/electron/electron/commits/main

[jaredwray]

@mesner - We have re-opened this and looking at what it would take to re-publish to types to fill this gap.

[jaredwray]

@kanadgupta @mesner @mmcshinsky-bitgo - merging and will release the changes in the next 48 hours.

[thorsent]

@jaredwray it doesn't look like @types/keyv got updated. npm is still pointing to 4.2.0 and missing index.d.ts:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/keyv

[jaredwray]

@thorsent there is a discussion here on it: DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped#62793