Unable to build in nodejs typescript

[odufuwa-segun]

Steps to Reproduce

yarn build

Observed Behaviour

The build fails with typescript errors saying: Cannot find name "Response", cannot find name "RequestInit"

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Expected Behaviour

Expect build to be successful

Technical Notes

• Node v14.17.6
• Typescript v4.2.3(fails on the latest too)

Reduced test case in https://github.com/odufuwa-segun/unsplash-backend-reduced-/settings

[OliverJAsh]

Please provide a reduced test case. Closing until this is provided.

[odufuwa-segun]

HI @OliverJAsh, I'm not too familiar with the term reduced test case, what am I to provide?

[OliverJAsh]

By reduced test case I mean something like a GitHub repository I can easily clone to reproduce the issue, in the smallest version you can provide.

[odufuwa-segun]

Hi @OliverJAsh, I have added the reduced test case.

I have left the other dependencies in the package.json file so as to give a good picture of what my configuration looks like.

[odufuwa-segun]

Hi @OliverJAsh, I have provided the reduced test case.

[odufuwa-segun]

Hi @OliverJAsh, I've fixed the issue.

I added the code below to my initialization script and that resolved the issue. My guess is that Request, RequestInnit and Response is defined as types with the fetch which for I guess wasn't globally set when I imported node-fetch. The code just declares fetch, Request, RequestInit and Response as global.

`
import * as nodeFetch from 'node-fetch'
import { InitParams } from 'unsplash-js/dist/helpers/request';

declare global {
var fetch: typeof nodeFetch.default;
type RequestInit = nodeFetch.RequestInit;
type Response = nodeFetch.Response;
}

`

[OliverJAsh]

Thank you!

This has come up a few times before:

• Can't set fetch agent #186 (comment)
• createApi errors when TypeScript dom lib is not included #166 (comment)

… so I added some documentation here: b8867e9.

I raised a PR to fix your problem but it sounds like you figured it out!

odufuwa-segun/unsplash-backend-reduced-#1