use-typescript-dist-tag.js

/**
 * Workaround for failing `yarn add -D -W typescript@next`
 * See https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/7935
 *
 * Given an environment variable called `TYPESCRIPT_DIST_TAG` fetch the corresponding
 * version and make sure this version used in the worktree as well as in dtslint.
 *
 * If you work on this file:
 * WARNING: This script can only use built-in modules since it has to run before
 * `yarn install`
 */
const childProcess = require('child_process');
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const { promisify } = require('util');

const exec = promisify(childProcess.exec);

async function main(distTag) {
  if (typeof distTag !== 'string') {
    throw new TypeError(`expected distTag: string but got '${distTag}'`);
  }

  if (distTag === 'stable') {
    // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
    console.log('nothing to do with stable');
    return;
  }

  const { stdout: versions } = await exec(`npm dist-tag ls typescript ${distTag}`);
  const tagMapping = versions.split('\n').find((mapping) => {
    return mapping.startsWith(`${distTag}: `);
  });
  if (tagMapping === undefined) {
    throw new Error(`Could not find '${distTag}' in "${versions}"`);
  }

  const version = tagMapping.replace(`${distTag}: `, '');

  const packageJsonPath = path.resolve(__dirname, '../package.json');
  const packageJson = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(packageJsonPath, { encoding: 'utf8' }));

  packageJson.devDependencies.typescript = version;
  packageJson.resolutions['**/dtslint/typescript'] = version;

  fs.writeFileSync(packageJsonPath, JSON.stringify(packageJson, null, 2));
}

main(process.env.TYPESCRIPT_DIST_TAG).catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
});