Flow: "Cannot resolve module" error could be more helpful

[toddmedema]

If this is a bug, please try reproducing using https://flow.org/try/.

As a first-time user of Flow, wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to fix that error - when it turned out that all it means is that you need to install a type definition for the module. I thought it was having issues finding or importing the module itself.

Suggestion: "Cannot resolve module X. The module may not have typing definitions, which can be installed using flow-typed."

[sarneeh]

This. I'm also another one who wasted a lot of time and already made me a little demotivated to use flow as it's being described as an easy-to-run tool and was actually very frustrating.

Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding something, but this does not seem to be a thing, because I get this error only on specific libraries (which apparently don't have the types as @toddmedema describes it).

[moaiii]

I've wasted so much time on the flow-typed nonsense. Why cant I just ignore imports?!?!?! Configuring flow is a nightmare!

[apsavin]

@moaiii You can ignore imports actually.

[nemethmik]

Flow is not nightmare at all. It's far from perfect, but it's absolutely usable even with Meteor, which has its own unusual magic.