Definitelytyped: Conflict between nodejs and requirejs definitions

[basarat]

I know that nodejs + requirejs is not something that exists at runtime (you are either in nodejs or requirejs/browser). But these definition files should not conflict with one another. Reason, say you have a file a.ts that you want to use both in nodejs and in browser / requirejs. If you have a reference file node_ref.ts and another browser_ref.ts you still need to reference both from a.ts and that will bring in node + requirejs into a.ts which will cause issues.

Issue report : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21380588/conflict-between-requirejs-and-nodejs-definitions-in-typescript

Error message : Subsequent variable declarations must have the same type.

Solution: require and define signatures should be separated into an interface

[vvakame]

suggestion: ping to main maintainers of requirejs.d.ts.

[basarat]

It can't be done. Reason:

https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/node/node.d.ts#L30 will conflict with https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/requirejs/require.d.ts#L236

as demonstrated by following code :

// RequireJS.d.ts 
interface Require{
    (module:string):any;
}

// NodeJS.d.ts
interface Require{
    (module:string):any;
}

Error message: duplicate overload signature.

I don't want there to be another file that people need to download / import which will contain just this single signature. But if too many people ask for this it can be done.

[flyon]

I'm getting this error too @basarat . What would it involve to fix this issue (with another file with a single signature)?

[basarat]

@flyon you need to manually edit and delete one of the signatures of (module:string):any

[liaotianr]

I'm facing a similar issue as I'm creating an Electron project. But node is my only folder in node_modules/@types.

My editor (VSCode) comes up with that message when I open the index.d.ts:

'Subsequent variable declarations must have the same type.  Variable 'process' must be of type 'any', but here has type 'Process'.'
'Subsequent variable declarations must have the same type.  Variable '__dirname' must be of type 'any', but here has type 'string'.'

[kulkarnichief]

any solution here yet? I am facing the same issue.