CANNOT FIND NAMESPACE DATATABLES

[NishalyV]

while using angular-datatables - 12 version or above any version iam getting this error and i can't able to run npm i @types/datatables.net --> this one fixes issue in temporarily again deleting nodemodules and packagelock.json again iam getting error, i can run only npm install

[Danielku15]

Angular-datatables 17.0.0 seem to rely on @types/datatables.net@1.10.2 for the types while the official datatables.net package would ship own types.

Try npm i @types/datatables.net@1.10.2 (or matching the version you use)

• https://github.com/l-lin/angular-datatables/blob/17.0.0/package.json#L46
• https://github.com/l-lin/angular-datatables/blob/16.0.0/package.json#L47

Worked for me 😄

17.1.0 moved away from @types/datatables.net it seems but we're not yet on that version.

[NishalyV]

if i use match version also iam getting same error My versions are angular-datatables - 12.0.2 types/datatables.net - 1.10.19 datatables.net - 2.0.7 datatables.net-dt - 2.0.7 My code is working after npm install, i again install this npm i @types/datatables.net@1.10.19. But i need this should be working in the npm install itself because while moving production or dev we can't install this package again. 1st time install angular-datatables directive, it is pointing to datatables.net -->types-->types.d.ts after installing particular package it is pointing to @types-->datatables.net -->index.d.ts

[theengineer0101]

Hey NishalyV, I ran into this error when I installed a version higher than @types/datatables.net@1.10.21. I would say install the version in your devDepenendicaes to match the version in the repo.

[Danielku15]

@NishalyV

tl;dr: I think your only options are:

a) Downgrade the datatables packages to compatible versions:

• @types/datatables.net@1.10.28 - The latest types package shipping own dedicated types. Should be compatible with angular-datatables@12.0.2.
• datatables.net@1.10.25 . The latest datatables package being compatible with both the @types and angular-datatables packages

b) Upgrade your project to Angular 17 and use angular-datatables@17.1.0, use the latest datatables 2.0.8 and fully remove @types/datatables.

Longer version

Seems you are mixing incompatible datatables.net and angular-datatables versions with also incompatible @types/datatables.

• angular-datatables@12.0.2 uses datatables.net@1.10.22 + @types/datatables.net@1.10.19. You are putting newer versions of dependencies underneath angular-datatables. Leading to a weird mix and errors. While angular-datatables and @types/datatables.net might be compatible from your setup, your datatables.net package is not compatible with them.

• In angular-datatables@17.1.0 this library here was upgraded to use datatables.net@2.0.3 and dropped @types/datatables.net. But it requires Angular 17.

• Up to @types/datatables.net@1.10.28 was shipping own types. Since @types/datatables.net@1.12.0 they are just forwarding the types to the installed datatables package.

• datatables.net introduced own types in 1.11.0.

• @types/datatables.net is now considered deprecated&dead.