Error when running init

cideM commented 1 year ago

Environment

$ node --version
v18.16.1
$ npm --version
9.5.1
$ tsc --version
Version 5.1.6

No previous typewriter installation, ran rm -rf node_modules and rg --hidden typewriter. Doing the steps outlined in https://segment.com/docs/protocols/apis-and-extensions/typewriter/#browser-quickstart

Steps

Install analytics.jsusing NPM method, so npm install @segment/analytics-next

$ rg segment/analytics
package.json
20:    "@segment/analytics-next": "^1.53.3",

Once you’ve got analytics.js installed, add Typewriter as a developer dependency in your project: npm install --save-dev typewriter
```
$ rg typewriter
package.json
47:    "typewriter": "^9.1.0",
```
If you are a snippet user that uses TypeScript, you should also install the npm library as a dev dependency to get the typescript types. I am not a snippet user, so skipping this

Run npx typewriter init to [...]

Ready
Copy working token
n would not like to store
select tracking plan
choose analytics as directory
language Typescript
As SDK choose Web (analytics.js)

n for fine tuning

Configuration Summary:
Name           Value
────────────── ─────────────────────────────────────
Tracking Plans *******************
Paths          analytics
Language       TypeScript
SDK            analytics-js

y save

? Save these settings? Yes
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'method')
$ ls analytics
ls: cannot access 'analytics': No such file or directory

$ uname -a
Darwin *************.local 22.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.5.0: Thu Jun  8 22:22:20 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.121.3~7/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64 arm Darwin

Expectation vs. reality

Expected there to be

no error
an analytics/ folder

Actual

got a typewriter.yml config file but no folder and an error

cideM commented 1 year ago

I also tried these steps on a NixOS system but I get the same error

cideM commented 1 year ago

It seems that init simply no longer creates a client. Either the documentation or the code needs to be updated. I don't see anything about generating a client in the command

The error appears to come from the initCommand call

Jorundur commented 12 months ago

Having the same issue. Can someone from Segment look into this? It's been over a month now.

EDIT: I just ran the command again and this time it worked. The only difference now was that since I'm using pnpm in my project I did pnpm dlx typewriter init instead of npx typewriter init and that worked. Maybe that was necessary!

cideM commented 3 months ago

This is still an issue, regardless of whether you use npx or you install the required packages manually.

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