[Bug]: beam-starter-typescript: npm run build: TypeError: Cannot set property constructor of [object Object] which has only a getter

[denis-haskin-elemental]

What happened?

Follow the steps in the README: https://github.com/apache/beam-starter-typescript?tab=readme-ov-file

Clone the repository, then:

✗ npm install

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✗ npm run build

> [email protected] build
> ttsc

/Users/denis/em/beam-starter-typescript/node_modules/ttypescript/lib/loadTypescript.js:13
        function __() { this.constructor = d; }
                                         ^

TypeError: Cannot set property constructor of [object Object] which has only a getter
    at new __ (/Users/denis/em/beam-starter-typescript/node_modules/ttypescript/lib/loadTypescript.js:13:42)
    at __extends (/Users/denis/em/beam-starter-typescript/node_modules/ttypescript/lib/loadTypescript.js:14:84)
    at /Users/denis/em/beam-starter-typescript/node_modules/ttypescript/lib/loadTypescript.js:65:5
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/denis/em/beam-starter-typescript/node_modules/ttypescript/lib/loadTypescript.js:100:2)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1358:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1416:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1208:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1024:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1233:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)

Node.js v20.15.0

Is there perhaps a nodejs version constraint which is not specified in the package.json?

Is that project still valid?

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(Also, the apache/beam-starter-typescript Github project does not have issues enabled, so I assume this should get eported here)

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[denis-haskin-elemental]

fwiw, I tried with nodejs 18 and 16 with the same result.

[denis-haskin-elemental]

Also, fwiw, I was able to set up blank nodejs tyepscript project, install apache-beam, and run trivial examples (nodejs 20.15.0). So it seems there's just something with the setup of this starter project.

[tkurki]

beam-starter-typescript is using ttypescript that is deprecated in Github but not in npm so seems effectively dead.

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