error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'node-config-ts'

[ts46236]

Describe the bug:
TSError: ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript:
src/execution-scopes/test-run.ts(9,24): error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'node-config-ts'. 'C:/app/PaymentAppAutomation/node_modules/node-config-ts/index.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
Try npm i --save-dev @types/node-config-ts if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing declare module 'node-config-ts';
src/execution-scopes/test-run.ts(35,57): error TS7006: Parameter 'api' implicitly has an 'any' type.
src/execution-scopes/test-run.ts(38,57): error TS7006: Parameter 'api' implicitly has an 'any' type.
src/execution-scopes/test-run.ts(41,54): error TS7006: Parameter 'api' implicitly has an 'any' type.
src/execution-scopes/test-run.ts(44,57): error TS7006: Parameter 'api' implicitly has an 'any' type.

at createTSError (C:\app\PaymentAppAutomation\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:859:12)
at reportTSError (C:\app\PaymentAppAutomation\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:863:19)
at getOutput (C:\app\PaymentAppAutomation\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:1077:36)
at Object.compile (C:\app\PaymentAppAutomation\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:1433:41)
at Module.m._compile (C:\app\PaymentAppAutomation\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:1617:30)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1219:10)
at Object.require.extensions.<computed> [as .ts] (C:\app\PaymentAppAutomation\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:1621:12)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1043:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:878:12)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1067:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:103:18)
at C:\app\PaymentAppAutomation\node_modules\@cucumber\cucumber\src\api\support.ts:28:30
at Array.map (<anonymous>)
at getSupportCodeLibrary (C:\app\PaymentAppAutomation\node_modules\@cucumber\cucumber\src\api\support.ts:28:16)
at runCucumber (C:\app\PaymentAppAutomation\node_modules\@cucumber\cucumber\src\api\run_cucumber.ts:45:36)

run.js:14

Steps To Reproduce:
run npm i node-config-ts. My version installed is 3.3.1
Create default.json at /config and files under development
run npm i and see that Config.d.ts created at root of /config
run the application from VSCode via ctrl F5 and error above shown

Expected behavior:
No errors occur when application is run and configuration is populated correctly.

Typescript Version:
4.9.3
node-config-ts version:
3.3.1
tsconfig.json

  "compilerOptions": {
    /* Basic Options */
    "target": "esnext",                          /* Specify ECMAScript target version: 'ES3' (default), 'ES5', 'ES2015', 'ES2016', 'ES2017','ES2018' or 'ESNEXT'. */
    "module": "commonjs",                     /* Specify module code generation: 'none', 'commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'umd', 'es2015', or 'ESNext'. */
    // "lib": [],                             /* Specify library files to be included in the compilation. */
    // "allowJs": true,                       /* Allow javascript files to be compiled. */
    // "checkJs": true,                       /* Report errors in .js files. */
    // "jsx": "preserve",                     /* Specify JSX code generation: 'preserve', 'react-native', or 'react'. */
    // "declaration": true,                   /* Generates corresponding '.d.ts' file. */
    "sourceMap": true,                        /* Generates corresponding '.map' file. */
    // "outFile": "./",                       /* Concatenate and emit output to single file. */
    "outDir": "./build",                        /* Redirect output structure to the directory. */
    // "rootDir": "./",                       /* Specify the root directory of input files. Use to control the output directory structure with --outDir. */
    // "removeComments": true,                /* Do not emit comments to output. */
    "noEmit": true,                        /* Do not emit outputs. */
    // "importHelpers": true,                 /* Import emit helpers from 'tslib'. */
    // "downlevelIteration": true,            /* Provide full support for iterables in 'for-of', spread, and destructuring when targeting 'ES5' or 'ES3'. */
    // "isolatedModules": true,               /* Transpile each file as a separate module (similar to 'ts.transpileModule'). */

    /* Strict Type-Checking Options */
    "strict": true,                           /* Enable all strict type-checking options. */
    "noImplicitAny": true,                 /* Raise error on expressions and declarations with an implied 'any' type. */
    // "strictNullChecks": true,              /* Enable strict null checks. */
    // "strictFunctionTypes": true,           /* Enable strict checking of function types. */
    // "strictPropertyInitialization": true,  /* Enable strict checking of property initialization in classes. */
    "noImplicitThis": true,                /* Raise error on 'this' expressions with an implied 'any' type. */
    // "alwaysStrict": true,                  /* Parse in strict mode and emit "use strict" for each source file. */

    /* Additional Checks */
    "noUnusedLocals": true,                /* Report errors on unused locals. */
    "noUnusedParameters": true,            /* Report errors on unused parameters. */
    "noImplicitReturns": true,             /* Report error when not all code paths in function return a value. */
    "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,    /* Report errors for fallthrough cases in switch statement. */
    "skipDefaultLibCheck": true,
    "resolveJsonModule": true,
    /* Module Resolution Options */
    // "moduleResolution": "node",            /* Specify module resolution strategy: 'node' (Node.js) or 'classic' (TypeScript pre-1.6). */
    // "baseUrl": "./",                       /* Base directory to resolve non-absolute module names. */
    // "paths": {},                           /* A series of entries which re-map imports to lookup locations relative to the 'baseUrl'. */
    // "rootDirs": [],                        /* List of root folders whose combined content represents the structure of the project at runtime. */
    // "typeRoots": [],                       /* List of folders to include type definitions from. */
    // "types": [],                           /* Type declaration files to be included in compilation. */
    // "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,  /* Allow default imports from modules with no default export. This does not affect code emit, just typechecking. */
    "esModuleInterop": true                   /* Enables emit interoperability between CommonJS and ES Modules via creation of namespace objects for all imports. Implies 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports'. */
    // "preserveSymlinks": true,              /* Do not resolve the real path of symlinks. */

    /* Source Map Options */
    // "sourceRoot": "./",                    /* Specify the location where debugger should locate TypeScript files instead of source locations. */
    // "mapRoot": "./",                       /* Specify the location where debugger should locate map files instead of generated locations. */
    // "inlineSourceMap": true,               /* Emit a single file with source maps instead of having a separate file. */
    // "inlineSources": true,                 /* Emit the source alongside the sourcemaps within a single file; requires '--inlineSourceMap' or '--sourceMap' to be set. */

    /* Experimental Options */
    // "experimentalDecorators": true,        /* Enables experimental support for ES7 decorators. */
    // "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,         /* Enables experimental support for emitting type metadata for decorators. */
  },
  "exclude": [
    "node_modules"
  ]
}

package.json

  "name": "cucumber-playwright",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "clean": "rimraf target",
    "buildOld": "rimraf build && npm run format && npm run lint && tsc && npm run cucumber-check",
    "build": "rimraf build && tsc",
    "test:execute": "cucumber-js --tags @Regression",
    "cucumber-check": "cucumber-js features/**/*.feature --dry-run --require env/set-environment-variables.ts --require world/custom-world.ts --require step-definitions/**/*.ts --require hooks/**/*.ts  --require-module ts-node/register --format-options \"{\\\"snippetInterface\\\": \\\"async-await\\\"}\" --format summary --format progress --format progress-bar  --publish-quiet",
    "debug": "PWDEBUG=1 DEBUG=pw:api cucumber-js",
    "only": "cucumber-js  -p default -p dev",
    "report": "open reports/report.html",
    "snippets": "cucumber-js features/**/*.feature --dry-run --format snippets",
    "steps-usage": "cucumber-js features/Login/cnoLogin.feature",
    "sit": "runScript.bat chromium SIT @SIT_RegressionTest",
    "uat": "runScript.bat chromium UAT @UAT_RegressionTest",
    "gen-config": "node-config-ts",
    "run-scripts": "runScript.bat",
    "test:parallel": "cucumber-js --parallel=2",
    "postinstall": "node-config-ts"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "@cucumber/pretty-formatter": "1.0.0",
    "@playwright/test": "^1.28.0",
    "cucumber-html-reporter": "^5.5.0",
    "cucumberjs-parallel": "^2.0.2",
    "date-fns": "^2.29.3",
    "node-config-ts": "^3.3.1",
    "npm-failsafe": "1.0.0",
    "playwright": "^1.28.0",
    "ts-node": "^10.9.1",
    "typescript": "^4.9.3"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@cucumber/cucumber": "^8.9.1",
    "@types/fs-extra": "^9.0.13",
    "fs-extra": "10.1.0"
  }
}

Additional context
VSCode 1.75.1
Windows 10

[ts46236]

I will say that I have tried to create to do what google says and create a blank module inside a .d.ts file but that didnt work. The only thing that worked was to copy the config.d.ts to an index.d.ts inside the node_module folder.

Also, I'm thinking there is something specific to cucumber that is causing it because the blank module trick worked in a different project I have and cucumber has a config file with module resolution:

cucumber.mjs

const getWorldParams = () => {
  const params = {
    foo: 'bar',
  };

  return params;
};

const config = {
  requireModule: ['ts-node/register'],
  require: ['src/**/*.ts'],
  format: [
    // 'message:e2e/reports/cucumber-report.ndjson',
    'json:test/reports/cucumber-report.json',
    'html:test/reports/cucumber-report.html',
    'summary',
    'progress-bar',
  ],
  formatOptions: { snippetInterface: 'async-await' },
  worldParameters: getWorldParams(),
  publishQuiet: true,
};

if (process.env.USE_ALLURE) {
  config.format.push('./src/support/reporters/allure-reporter.ts');
} else {
  config.format.push('@cucumber/pretty-formatter');
}
export default config;

[siberian1967]

I had to copy Config.ts.d to node_modules/node-config-ts/index.d.ts

I know this is not supposed to be needed anymore, but it was for me today.

[shayan-hussaini-10p]

Quick workaround is to use:
const { config } = require('node-config-ts');
instead of
import { config } from 'node-config-ts';

[daniosoriov]

The answer from @shayan-hussaini-10p worked for me, although I had to add a lint ignore on my project:

// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
const { config } = require('node-config-ts')

I get the same error:

TSError: ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript:
src/api/v4.0/oauth2/oauth2.ts:3:24 - error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'node-config-ts'. '/Users/username/project/node_modules/node-config-ts/index.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
  Try `npm i --save-dev @types/node-config-ts` if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing `declare module 'node-config-ts';`

I followed all the steps of the installation, but what it wasn't clear is what to do with tsconfig.json to include this new type, so I tried this:

"include": [
    "src/**/*.ts",
    "config/**/*.ts"
  ],

But I don't know if this is the right way of setting up tsconfig.json

[colinbes]

Anything more on this? I confirm that everything works as expected for version 2.3.1 but from there on I get this error.

In tsconfig.json if I set strict to false then it runs.

Note, that npx tsc doesn't report any errors and I only get the error when trying to run my file using
nodemon --watch './**/*.ts' --exec 'ts-node-esm ./lib/server.ts'

[colinbes]

For now I am not setting strict to false in tsconfig but rather have modified the post install script to create a symbolic link - I don't know how this will effect build (I am using Vita) but at least I can run using nodemon shown above.

"postinstall": "node-config-ts && cp ./config/Config.d.ts ./node_modules/node-config-ts/index.d.ts"

[John-H-Smith]

Any update on this? Getting the error as well, I am pretty sure this shouldn't happen.