Theo's Typesafe Cult•3y ago

Standalone CLI in t3 project

Hi! So I wrote a question a while ago about making a little script for interacting with my db through prisma (https://discordapp.com/channels/966627436387266600/1024739607553786011) I was recommended ts-node to run the file, but that doesn't work at all. I think it has something to do with es6 imports/exports but it's really cryptic and I can't find much information about it. The error message looks like this:

PS E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio> npx ts-node .\src\utils\dbUtils.ts
(node:14184) Warning: To load an ES module, set "type": "module" in the package.json or use the .mjs extension.
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio\src\utils\dbUtils.ts:3
export {};
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'export'
    at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:360:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1055:15)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1090:27)
    at Module.m._compile (E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:1618:23)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1180:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.<computed> [as .ts] (E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:1621:12)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1004:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:839:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
    at phase4 (E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio\node_modules\ts-node\src\bin.ts:649:14)

PS E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio> npx ts-node .\src\utils\dbUtils.ts
(node:14184) Warning: To load an ES module, set "type": "module" in the package.json or use the .mjs extension.
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio\src\utils\dbUtils.ts:3
export {};
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'export'
    at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:360:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1055:15)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1090:27)
    at Module.m._compile (E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:1618:23)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1180:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.<computed> [as .ts] (E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio\node_modules\ts-node\src\index.ts:1621:12)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1004:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:839:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
    at phase4 (E:\Github\frazzot-portfolio\node_modules\ts-node\src\bin.ts:649:14)

And the file is simply

console.log("Hello");

export {};

console.log("Hello");

export {};

Has anyone else ran in to problems like this? Any help, pointers or other recommendations for how I could run a .ts file in my t3 project without running the whole web app would be greatly appreciated

15 Replies

needmorewood•3y ago

im not super familiar but I have created ts scripts and ran them with https://github.com/egoist/tsno before im pretty noob when it comes to this so someone probably has a better solution

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Vincent Udén•3y ago

Dude thank you so much. That library just worked right of the bat

needmorewood•3y ago

no worries

Vincent Udén•3y ago

No config, no error, just worked exactly as expected

needmorewood•3y ago

egoist and antfu are god developers so if you see options from them they get it

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Vincent Udén•3y ago

For sure! I just skimmed through their github page and their stuff looks really useful

needmorewood•3y ago

holy crap i didnt realise tsup took off like it did

nexxel•3y ago

we actually use tsup in create-t3-app it is so nice

needmorewood•3y ago

thats good to hear, seems like we secretly love Vue devs here without knowing it 😂 well egoist is doing everything these days

cje•3y ago

i usually use https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx

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cje•3y ago

but tbh i dont know the difference between the various options

needmorewood•3y ago

i think tsx is antfu's version that got put into an org also great tools

nexxel•3y ago

i love vue devs

needmorewood•3y ago

one thing i miss in react from Vue is computed properties, they just seem awful in react

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