jscodeshift throws `SyntaxError: Unexpected token, expected ","` for typescript file with just types

[trivikr]

Describe the bug

jscodeshift throws SyntaxError: Unexpected token, expected "," for typescript file with just types

jscodeshift: 0.13.1
 - babel: 7.17.5
 - babylon: 7.17.3
 - flow: 0.173.0
 - recast: 0.20.5

Steps to reproduce

Stackblitz: https://stackblitz.com/edit/node-u3ttzg Run npx jscodeshift example.ts in console.

To reproduce in your workspace, add the following files:

transform.js

// transform.js
module.exports = function (fileInfo, api, options) {
  const j = api.jscodeshift;
  const source = j(fileInfo.source);
  return source.toSource();
};

example.ts

// example.ts
import AWS from 'aws-sdk';

export const listTables = (client: AWS.DynamoDB) =>
  client.listTables().promise();

Observed behavior

Throws error:

Processing 1 files... 
Spawning 1 workers...
Sending 1 files to free worker...
 ERR example.ts Transformation error (Unexpected token, expected "," (3:33))
SyntaxError: Unexpected token, expected "," (3:33)
    at Parser._raise (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/error.js:150:45)
    at Parser.raiseWithData (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/error.js:145:17)
    at Parser.raise (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/error.js:89:17)
    at Parser.unexpected (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/util.js:174:16)
    at Parser.expect (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/util.js:150:28)
    at Parser.parseParenAndDistinguishExpression (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/expression.js:1702:14)
    at Parser.parseExprAtom (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/expression.js:1122:21)
    at Parser.parseExprAtom (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/plugins/jsx/index.js:571:22)
    at Parser.parseExprSubscripts (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/expression.js:682:23)
    at Parser.parseUpdate (/home/.turbo/npx/sd7KuR/node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/expression.js:662:21)
All done. 
Results: 
1 errors
0 unmodified
0 skipped
0 ok
Time elapsed: 1.119seconds

Expected behavior

The jscodeshift run is complete with no transformation

Processing 1 files... 
Spawning 1 workers...
Sending 1 files to free worker...
All done. 
Results: 
0 errors
1 unmodified
0 skipped
0 ok
Time elapsed: 0.587seconds

Screenshots

Screenshot

Additional context

We noticed this issue in aws-sdk-js-codemod and we tried to fix it by passing parser=ts in the tests in https://github.com/trivikr/aws-sdk-js-codemod/pull/83

But explicitly setting the parser breaks other tests. We can pass parser for the specific test, but it will affect our consumers which may run transformation on or multiple files.