Javascript - Investigate why `npx typescript` fails on certain machines whereas `npx tsc` succeeds

[lugehorsam]

[orta]

npx has somewhat indeterminate behavior depending on your npm version, globals and your node_modules. For example;

npm 7:

• no node_modules, install and run the npm module tsc which I recently deprecated with error messages
• no node_modules but has typescript globally installed (unlikely on CI) then run the global version of tsc
• node_modules installed, with TypeScript in the deps: run tsc correctly

npm 8 should bail on the top state asking if you want to install the npm module tsc.

Personally, I'd recommend yarn or pnpm which doesn't have this sort of confusing UX

[jackunion]

@lugehorsam this one is related to https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama-js/issues/138

Maybe could be closed since npx typescript has been updated to npx tsc?