Trouble running development environment

[cvl01]

I followed the instructions for setting up a development environment, but have trouble getting things to work. I am not very common with node, so excuse me if I am missing something obvious.

When running tsc . I get the following error.

$ tsc .
error TS6231: Could not resolve the path '' with the extensions: '.ts', '.tsx', '.d.ts', '.cts', '.d.cts', '.mts', '.d.mts'.
  The file is in the program because:
    Root file specified for compilation

Found 1 error.

I then tried running tsc, without the . as suggested online. This gives me

$ tsc
src/audio/AudioPlayer.ts:286:45 - error TS2307: Cannot find module 'speaker' or its corresponding type declarations.

286   const { default: Speaker } = await import('speaker')
                                                ~~~~~~~~~

Found 1 error in src/audio/AudioPlayer.ts:286```

Seems like speaker is not installed. Does that have to do with it being a peerdependency? Running `npm install speaker` does not change anything. Could it be that I have to install Visual Studio to compile speaker?

[rotemdan]

It's a TypeScript error, no an Node.js error. TypeScript doesn't know it's a peer dependency, and although the import it dynamic, it still seems to look for it. I'm not sure there's anything I can do about that.

I get that locally too. I simply installed the speaker package to workaround that message. You can also try adding // @ts-ignore before that line to silence the message.

[cvl01]

Wow! That was a fast response! I managed to fix it, indeed by installing speaker. However, I had to install visual studio with c++ development tools to properly install the speaker package. That worked, and removed the error!