Type errors with TypeScript 5.4+

[freben]

When upgrading to TypeScript 5.4+, importing from ast-types leads to type errors.

Reproduction:

• check out https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/24265
• run yarn install
• run yarn tsc:full

Result:

Obeying the instructions and explicitly making them type imports solves the problem:

-import { ASTNode, Type, AnyType, Field } from "./lib/types";
+import { ASTNode, type Type, AnyType, Field } from "./lib/types";
-import { NodePath } from "./lib/node-path";
+import { type NodePath } from "./lib/node-path";
-import { builders } from "./gen/builders";
+import { type builders } from "./gen/builders";

[craiganderson-iotv]

A suitable patch-package for these changes is ast-types+0.14.2.patch:

diff --git a/node_modules/ast-types/main.d.ts b/node_modules/ast-types/main.d.ts
index 6b9a8d0..1010bb5 100644
--- a/node_modules/ast-types/main.d.ts
+++ b/node_modules/ast-types/main.d.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-import { ASTNode, Type, AnyType, Field } from "./lib/types";
-import { NodePath } from "./lib/node-path";
+import { ASTNode, type Type, AnyType, Field } from "./lib/types";
+import { type NodePath } from "./lib/node-path";
 import { namedTypes } from "./gen/namedTypes";
-import { builders } from "./gen/builders";
+import { type builders } from "./gen/builders";
 import { Visitor } from "./gen/visitor";
 declare const astNodesAreEquivalent: {
     (a: any, b: any, problemPath?: any): boolean;

Eventually, it looks like ast-types-x could be a well-maintained replacement.