fs.readdirSync(__dirname) showing .js file extension instead of .ts

Question

I have the following code:

console.log(fs.readdirSync(__dirname));

Which prints out the following:

[ 'index.js', 'objective.js', 'quest.js', 'user_objective.js' ]

However, my file directory setup is as follows:

Why would it think the .ts extension is .js?

tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
   
    "target": "es6",
  
    "module": "commonjs" /* Specify what module code is generated. */,
    "rootDir": "./src" /* Specify the root folder within your source files. */,
    "outDir": "./dist" /* Specify an output folder for all emitted files. */,
    "esModuleInterop": true /* Emit additional JavaScript to ease support for importing CommonJS modules. This enables 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports' for type compatibility. */,
    // "preserveSymlinks": true,                         /* Disable resolving symlinks to their realpath. This correlates to the same flag in node. */
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true /* Ensure that casing is correct in imports. */,

    /* Type Checking */
    "strict": true /* Enable all strict type-checking options. */,
   
    "skipLibCheck": true /* Skip type checking all .d.ts files. */
  },
  "exclude": ["node_modules"]
}

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 13 '22 at 14:46

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Node.js doesn't support TypeScript.

Your TypeScript is compiled into JavaScript and stored in .js files ("outDir": "./dist" /* Specify an output folder for all emitted files. */,).

Node.js runs the resulting JavaScript.

The __dirname for the JS files contains JS files.

answered Dec 13 '22 at 14:46

Quentin

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So is the solution to set the `allowJs` flag to true? I did that, and I get new errors. Want to make sure I am going down the right path. – Snoopy Dec 13 '22 at 15:22
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The solution to what? There's no problem. – Quentin Dec 13 '22 at 15:23
I changed my code to accept .js instead of the .ts extension *shrug* – Snoopy Dec 14 '22 at 20:13

fs.readdirSync(__dirname) showing .js file extension instead of .ts

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