Cannot find name 'KeyboardEvent'

[davegomez]

This is my first time with Deno, and I started writing a small library that I usually use in many projects I own.

The problem I have is Deno does not recognize some TypeScript types. This particular case is KeyboardEvent, and I can't find any hint of how I could solve this issue.

This is the error message I'm getting:

error: TS2304 [ERROR]: Cannot find name 'KeyboardEvent'.
const isEnter = ({ code, key, keyCode, type }: KeyboardEvent): boolean =>
                                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davegomez/is-keyboard-event/main/src/is-enter.ts:3:48

I know the type exists because TypeScript compiles the file correctly.

[kitsonk]

Deno only builds in the type definitions that Deno supports (you can see what these are by doing deno types or visiting https://doc.deno.land/builtin/stable. Deno does not support support keyboard events.

If you are trying to use code that is written for the web and maybe get it to work under Deno, you will need to supply a TypeScript configuration file with something like this:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "lib": [ "esnext", "dom", "dom.iterable", "deno.ns" ]
  }
}

And then supply it on the command line via the --config option.

Feel free to join the discussion on Discord which can usually be more interactive on answering these type of questions: https://discord.gg/deno

[davegomez]

Thank you for the response @kitsonk