Fresh install does not compile

[danielyogel]

Description
Fresh install does not compile with the following compile time error:

Type alias 'TDescendant' circularly references itself.

Steps

1. Init a fresh TypeScript Vite project.
2. Follow Plate's install guide
3. Run tsc

[MingkunHe]

any update? I got this issue too

[fondation451]

Do we know the cause of this compilation problem? I am using Plate on a frontend application and it works perfectly well. But in my backend code, I got this issue too on.

Here is my backend dependencies:

"dependencies": {
    "@elastic/elasticsearch": "^7.8.0",
    "@nestjs/common": "^7.0.0",
    "@nestjs/core": "^7.0.0",
    "@nestjs/platform-express": "^7.0.0",
    "@sentry/node": "5.20.1",
    "@slack/web-api": "^5.11.0",
    "@types/draft-js": "^0.11.6",
    "@types/faker": "^4.1.12",
    "@types/jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.0",
    "@types/lodash": "^4.14.158",
    "@types/nock": "^11.1.0",
    "@udecode/plate-basic-elements": "^6.4.0",
    "@udecode/plate-basic-marks": "^6.4.0",
    "@udecode/plate-common": "^6.4.0",
    "@udecode/plate-html-serializer": "^6.4.0",
    "@udecode/plate-link": "^6.4.0",
    "@udecode/plate-list": "^6.4.0",
    "atlassian-jwt": "^2.0.1",
    "aws-sdk": "^2.709.0",
    "axios": "^0.21.2",
    "cld": "^2.7.0",
    "dotenv": "npm:dotenv-override@^5.0.1",
    "dotenv-cli": "^4.0.0",
    "draft-js": "^0.11.7",
    "faker": "^4.1.0",
    "google-auth-library": "^6.0.2",
    "grapheme-splitter": "^1.0.4",
    "helmet": "^4.4.1",
    "jsdom": "^18.0.0",
    "jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.1",
    "lodash": "^4.17.19",
    "messageformat": "^2.3.0",
    "mixpanel": "^0.13.0",
    "moment": "^2.27.0",
    "nest-raven": "^7.0.0",
    "node-mailjet": "^3.3.4",
    "pdfjs-dist": "^2.10.377",
    "pg": "^8.2.1",
    "pino": "^6.4.1",
    "pusher": "^5.0.0",
    "react": "^17.0.2",
    "react-dom": "^17.0.2",
    "reflect-metadata": "^0.1.13",
    "rimraf": "^3.0.2",
    "rxjs": "^6.5.4",
    "slate": "^0.66.5",
    "slate-history": "^0.66.0",
    "slate-hyperscript": "^0.67.0",
    "slate-react": "^0.69.0",
    "source-map-support": "^0.5.19",
    "sqreen": "^1.61.0",
    "timekeeper": "^2.2.0",
    "typeorm": "^0.2.25",
    "uuid": "^8.2.0",
    "validator": "^13.5.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@nestjs/cli": "^7.0.0",
    "@nestjs/schematics": "^7.0.0",
    "@nestjs/testing": "^7.0.0",
    "@types/aws-sdk": "^2.7.0",
    "@types/dotenv": "^8.2.0",
    "@types/express": "^4.17.3",
    "@types/glob": "^7.1.4",
    "@types/immutable": "^3.8.7",
    "@types/jest": "25.1.4",
    "@types/jsdom": "^16.2.13",
    "@types/mixpanel": "^2.14.2",
    "@types/node": "^13.9.1",
    "@types/node-mailjet": "^3.3.4",
    "@types/pino": "^6.3.9",
    "@types/request": "^2.48.6",
    "@types/supertest": "^2.0.8",
    "@types/uuid": "^8.3.1",
    "@types/validator": "^13.1.3",
    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^2.23.0",
    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^2.23.0",
    "eslint": "^6.8.0",
    "eslint-config-prettier": "^6.10.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.24.2",
    "husky": "^7.0.1",
    "jest": "^25.1.0",
    "nock": "^13.0.5",
    "nodemon": "^2.0.6",
    "npm-run-all": "^4.1.5",
    "pino-pretty": "^5.1.2",
    "prettier": "^1.19.1",
    "supertest": "^4.0.2",
    "ts-jest": "25.2.1",
    "ts-loader": "^6.2.1",
    "ts-node": "^9.0.0",
    "ts-node-dev": "^1.1.1",
    "typescript": "^4.4.4"
  },

Do you have any updates?

[explodingunicorn]

Also running into this issue.

[camille-wintz]

This issue seems to be caused by the @ts-ignore in this file:

https://github.com/udecode/plate/blob/main/packages/core/src/types/slate/TDescendant.ts#L5

@ts-ignore is not copied into generated d.ts files: microsoft/TypeScript#38628

This means the source will build, but running tsc in a project importing plate won't build. The issue isn't present with webpack (but is present with rollup and vite) because ts-loader doesn't run tsc at the project root.

[zbeyens]

@camille-wintz We have this error because we're using generics to extend the type. The workaround is to use interfaces but then the union type (Element | Text) gets broken as it works only with types.

It would probably wise to get rid of Plate T... types and push for ianstormtaylor/slate#4177