This relative module was not found, when importing typescript

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Preemptive note: There are a ton of \"relative module was not found\" questions on Stackoverflow. I have looked through as many as I could find and they are not

Answer 1

Ok I think this is just a bug in protoc. I was running it like this:

protoc -I=../../protos/ ../../protos/foo.proto --js_out=import_style=typescript:. --grpc-web_out=import_style=typescript,mode=grpcweb:.

That creates foo_pb.d.ts but it should create foo_pb.js too. In fact it creates separate files for each message - memory.js and empty.js. I "fixed" it by running this command:

protoc -I=../../protos/ ../../protos/foo.proto --js_out=import_style=commonjs,binary:. --grpc-web_out=import_style=typescript,mode=grpcweb:.

This then generated the foo_pb.js file, and it also generates the foo_pb.d.ts file. I know right, WTF?