Ignore filename extension for child_process fork using when using Typescript

[franciscohanna92]

I'm using child_process's fork method to instantiate a subprocess, like so:

fork(path.join(__dirname, './worker.ts'));

The problem is that when building (transpiling) my project, a MODULE_NOT_FOUND is thrown because worker.ts turned into worker.js. Initially, mi idea was to omit the file extension, but if I do so, when running the project with node-dev, it throws a MODULE_NOT_FOUND because it can't resolve the file if the extension is not present.

What's the workaround for this?

I'm on Windows 10 using node v12.22.1