type-check reports errors twice

[unshame]

Creating a project with typescript and vitest

Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework

√ Add TypeScript? ... Yes
√ Add Vitest for Unit Testing? ... Yes

making a mistake somewhere and then running type-check script reports the errors twice:

This is due to the fact that "src" is included in both tsconfig.app.json and tsconfig.vitest.json. This was introduced with https://github.com/vuejs/create-vue/pull/274

Not sure how to fix this. It's nice to have a separate tsconfig for vitest, but not sure it's worth it if it double reports the errors because of it.

[cexbrayat]

Hi @unshame , thanks for the report.

I noticed it, but did not really mind personally.

@sodatea do you have an idea on how we could do better for this?

[sjihdazii]

@sodatea @unshame I have an idea what the cause may be. The tsconfig.json references the tsconfig.app.json and the tsconfig.vitest.json. The vue tsc build will run for both files. So if both tsconfig files include the file with the error; the error will be shown twice.

The solution could be changing the type check script in the package.json to: "type-check": "vue-tsc --build ./tsconfig.vitest.json --force",

[unshame]

@sjihdazii yeah, but that defeats the purpose of having two configs. The .vitest.json config has additional globals defined which are only available in the .test files.

[codethief]

Hi there, I just stumbled over this, too.

Why does tsconfig.vitest.json need to include the production code (code-under-test) in the first place? Isn't this exactly the point of project references – to allow a split between different parts of the code base that need to run with different TSC settings & type declarations (production code needs client-side types, test code needs node & jsdom types etc.)?

In other words, how about changing tsconfig.vitest.json to something like

{
  "extends": "@vue/tsconfig/tsconfig.dom.json", // <--- No longer extend tsconfig.app.json
  "include": ["src/**/__tests__/**/*"], // <-- Include only tests
  "exclude": [],
  "compilerOptions": {
    "composite": true,
    "tsBuildInfoFile": "./node_modules/.tmp/tsconfig.vitest.tsbuildinfo",

    "lib": [],
    "types": ["node", "jsdom"]
  },
  "references": [
    { "path": "./tsconfig.app.json" }, // <-- Reference tsconfig.app.json to allow test files to import production code
  ],
}

Note that this requires setting something like

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "noEmit": false,
    "emitDeclarationOnly": true,
  }
}

in tsconfig.app.json and configuring outDir appropriately (e.g. setting it ./node_modules/.tmp/app or something). Compare my comment here.

EDIT: I uploaded some example code here.

[unshame]

I was under the impression that vue-tsc didn't work with noEmit: false

Edit: oh, yeah, that works, cool

Edit2: seems not to work when importing .vue files in tests - I get a weird File X.vue.ts is not listed within the file list of project Y. Projects must list all files or use an 'include' pattern.. I assume it's the .vue.ts extension and the way vue-tsc handles vue files that's causing the issue.

And I'm unable to include just the .vue files with "include": ["./src/**/*.test.ts", "./src/**/*.vue"] or "include": ["./src/**/*.test.ts", "./src/**/*.vue.ts"]. Only "include": ["src"] works.

Edit3: this issue has been fixed in volar 2.0.26 https://github.com/vuejs/language-tools/issues/3526 so looks like this solution works 🎉

[codethief]

@unshame I'm having trouble following you but I'm glad you found a fix!

For everyone else, I uploaded an example project the other day where I had tsconfig.vitest.json reference the production code instead of includeing it and things seemed to work fine.

[unshame]

@codethief I was updating the comment as I was trying to implement your suggestion, so it came out a bit incomprehensible. Your approach works with vue-tsc version 2 or later. That was my main point.

It also works for npm/pnpm workspaces as I found out - I've been able to utilize ts project references properly by putting the following in the package.json of each workspace:

{
  "exports": {
    "types": "./node_modules/.tmp/app/src/index.d.ts",
    "default": "./src/index.ts"
  }
}

I never realized I could just reference the compiled types while still referencing the uncompiled code. And this works in vscode & webstorm without needing to pre-compile anything.

This, with the vitest tsconfig optimization, has cut down typechecking times for my project significantly (to one minute from seven).

So huge thanks!

[unshame]

@cexbrayat would you consider using the approach @codethief proposed for this repo? I have some free time, so I can submit a PR.

[cexbrayat]

Sure, we would be glad to get a PR and see if that improves the situation! 👍

[unshame]

@cexbrayat what's the reason for putting e2e tsconfigs in the e2e folder and not including them in the references of the main tsconfig? Is it because of this same issue by any chance?

[Tamas-hi]

I have followed a few threads, but I am now unsure what the current status is. As of today, I am still experiencing the same issue.

[haoqunjiang]

One thing I'm trying to experiment with now is to:

• Remove composite: true from all tsconfig.*.json
• Add "include": ["src/**/__tests__/*", "env.d.ts"], to tsconfig.vitest.json

With this configuration, files not imported into a .spec.ts would only report errors once. So, it mitigates the issue. But I'm waiting for feedback from https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/60465 to ensure this change doesn't introduce any unexpected consequences.

[codethief]

@haoqunjiang

• Remove composite: true from all tsconfig.*.json
• Add "include": ["src/**/tests/*"], to tsconfig.vitest.json

If you do that, test code will no longer be able to import production code. The solution then is to either

• add the production code to the test code. (=> Overlap between the includes of both tsconfig.*.jsons => duplicate errors & confusion which tsconfig the IDE should use for any given file => back to square one.) Or to
• add tsconfig.app.json to the references in tsconfig.vitest.json, in which case you do need the composite: true in tsconfig.app.json (see also my comment here).

I know the situation with project references is confusing and not at all well-documented – god knows they confused me for the longest time, too. However, I would suggest you take a closer look at the comments above, in particular, at the example code I shared and at @unshame's PR, since they already solve the present issue and use project references in the way they were intended.

[haoqunjiang]

If you do that, test code will no longer be able to import production code.

Strictly speaking, the code imported to the spec files runs in the test environment, not the app code's browser environment. So, I'm afraid cross-referencing may not be the ultimate solution here.

IMO, for components being unit-tested, it's not a bug for the errors to be reported twice. Because it means the types are wrong in both the browser and test environments. But for code that is not unit-tested, say main.ts, it should only error once. That's what I'm trying to fix.

[codethief]

Strictly speaking, the code imported to the spec files runs in the test environment, not the app code's browser environment.

That is very true. However, given that regular Vue code typically runs in a browser environment and test runners like Vitest emulate such an environment using JSDOM & friends, I'd say using project references in the way I outlined is a decent compromise for now. See also https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/37053 for the general discussion.

N.B. If you ask me, the underlying issue is the presence of a global scope in JS to begin with. If JS/TS had monads or algebraic effects to encode side effects, then we could save ourselves this gigantic pile of pain. (For instance, importing production code in test code would lead the type checker to verify automatically whether the test environment provides the appropriate "global" scope that the production code needs.)

[haoqunjiang]

IMO, for components being unit-tested, it's not a bug for the errors to be reported twice. Because it means the types are wrong in both the browser and test environments.

I just came up with a somewhat contrived example before going to bed. I'll write it down here and continue the discussion later.

Say the user is developing a web app utilizing the OPFS API, like https://github.com/diffusionstudio/vits-web They might set "lib": ["ES2020", "DOM", "DOM.Iterable", "DOM.AsyncIterable"] in tsconfig.app.json.

Then, the following code, if present in HelloWorld.vue, would throw one distinct type error in each environment:

// Only error in browser environment
console.log(__dirname)

// Only error in vitest because jsdom doesn't implement File System API
// (`getDirectory`'s type inevitably sneaked in as jsdom references DOM lib;
// but jsdom doesn't opt into `DOM.AsyncIterable`, so `.entries` is never available)
const dirHandle = await navigator.storage.getDirectory()
console.log(dirHandle.entries())

[Tamas-hi]

I have followed a few threads, but I am now unsure what the current status is. As of today, I am still experiencing the same issue.

Just tested today with the latest changes (or probably changes from last December) of create-vue.

Can confirm an error does not appear twice anymore (at least for non-test files) because of the previous tsconfig.app.json and tsconfig.vitest.json interference🚀