TSConfig in Crawlee projects.

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A community member is experiencing an issue with the crawlee module, where the linter is giving an error even on the template project. They are using TypeScript and the Puppeteer template, and have tried running npx crawlee create my-crawler. Another community member suggests that the issue may be related to the community member's Prettier configuration, as the script runs perfectly for them. The community members discuss potential solutions, such as updating the apify-cli or making a pull request to the open-source Crawlee project. However, there is no explicitly marked answer to the original issue.

NNeoNomade

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Cannot find module 'crawlee'. Did you mean to set the 'moduleResolution' option to 'nodenext', or to add aliases to the 'paths' option?ts(2792)

The linter is giving this error even on the template project.
This needs attention or can I let it like this ?

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PPepa J

Hi can you please describe which template exactly are you using?

NNeoNomade

Puppeteer

NNeoNomade

PPepa J

JavaScript or Typescript, have you tried updating the apify-cli to the newest version?

NNeoNomade

TypeScript, I'm not using the apify-cli .

PPepa J

So are you using npx crawlee create my-crawler? Or how did you get to the template?

NNeoNomade

yes

NNeoNomade

which imho would run a billion times faster with bun :)) .
If that could be implemented on crawlee's end.

PPepa J

I am checking the template now...
Crawlee is open-source, feel free to make Pull Request with possible improvements 🙂

NNeoNomade

I will try to make some times for this...
Off topic a little bit. I'm using github for my business work. For contributing to open source stuff, should I create a different github or use the same one ?

PPepa J

For contributing to open source stuff.

That is totally up to you, your username then may be mentioned in the Contributors section so it depends on if you want your business account to be mentioned there or not, also I believe the contributions to public directories are visible directly from your GitHub Profile...

PPepa J

So I ran
npx crawlee create my-crawler
Selected PuppeteerCrawler template project [TypeScript]
Waited till the instalation finished and run
npm run start

Everything is working for me 🤔

I see package crawlee installed in node_modules and also mentioned as a dependency in package.json

tested in WebStorm and VSCode.

Are you using some custom non-template related linter? Can you try to reopen the project when you see this error? Does is help?

NNeoNomade

No, I’m using Prettier

NNeoNomade

the script runs perfectly for me too, it's just I don't understand why Prettier is sending that message.

PPepa J

I had installed Prettier - Code formatter extension and also Prettier ESLint no warnings so ever. Since there is no configuration for prettier inside the template I assume the issue may be in your extension, or your prettier configuration - This is not Crawlee related. Sorry I cannot help you with that.

NNeoNomade

hmm strange. ok.
I'll keep looking.

NNeoNomade

thank you anyhow.

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