Using Typescript with Nodejs - Can't find index.d.ts

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A friend recommended that I swap over to Typescript from javascript, as a way to deal with the problems I was having implementing promises in loops and conditionals (TS has async/await functionality). I can never seem to get TS compiling properly. The latest error I got on the VSCODE terminal (which is different to the set of errors I was getting on the console) was:

error TS6053: File 'c:/stuff/node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts' not found.

So I created that directory structure and put index.d.ts in there and now I am getting these errors:

node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts(6,25): error TS2307: Cannot find module 'stream'.
node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts(14,32): error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Buffer'.
node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts(15,78): error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Buffer'.
node_modules/@types/node/index.d.ts(23,39): error TS2304: Cannot find name 'Buffer'.

nodejs.org 8.5 is the latest version. Async/Await arrive in version 8. — Mark
– Mark, Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 3:03
Ok. How do I go about updating to that version? I'm new to node — erv
– erv, Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 3:04
I like n - it makes switching between versions easy: github.com/tj/n — Mark
– Mark, Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 3:05

kite.js.org · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-14 03:17:33Z

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it's not a correct way to solve your problem by doing:

created that directory structure and put index.d.ts in there

the correct way is installing @types/node by npm command in VSCode terminal (MENU: View > Integrated Terminal):

npm install @types/node --save-dev

Before you install it, you'd better delete "@types" folder manually.

edited Sep 14, 2017 at 3:17

answered Sep 14, 2017 at 3:03

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