.ts to .js loses class attributes?

[VadneyK]

Please describe the problem you are having in as much detail as possible: I am writing a discord bot in typescript, heavily influenced by the tutorial here and am just typing things to make it fit in .ts instead of .js. I am having issues where converting .ts classes to .js classes makes class attributes in .ts dissapear. cross-posted details here: https://github.com/PlasmNetwork/dusty-faucet/issues/3#issuecomment-857844417

Is this a known issue and therefore Commando should be used instead or discord.ts should be used instead since transpiling from ts to js causes issues?

I understand this may not be related enough to discord.js since it seems to be a ts to js transpiling detail, so please feel free to point me to a better place to post this!

Include a reproducible code sample here, if possible: code mentioned in screenshot at cross-post is here: https://github.com/PlasmNetwork/dusty-faucet/tree/main/app

Further details:

discord.js@^12.5.1: node - v16.2.0 MacOS M1 chip BigSur 11.2.3 Priority: medium

[kyranet]

Your issue is caused because you're declarig class fields with a type (name: 'drip'), but with no value (name = 'drip'), which results on TS not assigning the values as they're declared but not assigned to any value.

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[VadneyK]

Ahh ok was kind of a long question and I didn't want to bombard the chat with all the descriptions.

that seemed to be one of my errors. I thought setting value: 'default' sets value to default in TS and is equivalent to value = 'default' but I guess instead TS thought I made a new type called 'default'?

also it seems like in TS we can immediately access the contents of the object, but even with the : to = change I was still getting undifined attributes so I looked over at the drip.js file and there was a constructor so I added the same constructor to the drip.ts file and called that to get the new object instead of doing the file access with fs.readdirSync from nodejs. I guess the fs.readdirSync works differently in comminJs as in not auto typing the read object?

either way here was my solution for reference: