Commit 63545fd3 authored by Robert Knight's avatar Robert Knight

Prevent Node globals from being included in typechecking environment

By default TypeScript includes all `@types/<name>` packages. This includes
@types/node, though we don't use it directly, because it is a transitive
dependency (see `yarn why @types/node`).

As a result Node's globals are added to the environment TS sees, even though
they don't really exist when our code runs in a browser. These globals
include overloads for `setTimeout` and `setInterval` which return a different
type (`Timeout`), causing spurious errors when assigning the result to a number.

Fix the problem by using the `types` option [1] in tsconfig.json to explicitly
specify which `@types/<name>` packages  to include when checking code in src/
This does mean that if we ever intentionally add @types packages which declare
globals (eg. for mocha), we'll need to explicitly list them here.

In the process the ES target was updated to fix an error about a `BigInt` reference.

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#types
parent 8ee4ceca
......@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
"compilerOptions": {
"allowJs": true,
"checkJs": true,
"lib": ["es2018", "dom", "dom.iterable"],
"lib": ["es2020", "dom", "dom.iterable"],
"jsx": "react-jsx",
"jsxImportSource": "preact",
"module": "commonjs",
......@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@
"target": "ES2020",
// Let argument to catch statement be `any` rather than `unknown`.
"useUnknownInCatchVariables": false
"useUnknownInCatchVariables": false,
// Prevent automatic inclusion of global variables defined in `@types/<name>` packages.
// This prevents eg. Node globals from `@types/node` being included when writing
// code for the browser.
"types": []
},
"include": ["**/*.js"],
"include": ["**/*.js", "types/process.d.ts"],
"exclude": [
// Tests are not checked.
"**/test/**/*.js",
......
type Process = { env: Record<string, string> };
/**
* Dummy `process` global that supports `process.env.NODE_ENV` checks to guard
* debug-only code.
*/
declare const process: Process;
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