[question] [typescript] Problem with global types

[angelhdzdev]

Can not find name 'Bun' TypeScript error.

Tried installing bun-types with bun add bun-types.

Vanilla bun project, just a main.ts.

Latest VSCode Windows 11 Home Ubuntu WSL terminal, bun x1,

Everything seems ok at runtime.

Congratulations for x1 release! This runtime is promising!

[pgmichael]

Yeah, looks like nothing was handled out of the box for me even with the extension installed.

I just installed the types manually (bun add bun-types) and created a tsconfig.json file at the root of my project containing the following code:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": ["bun-types"],
  }
}

Hope this helps :)

[angelhdzdev]

Yeah, looks like nothing was handled out of the box for me even with the extension installed.

I just installed the types manually (bun add bun-types) and created a tsconfig.json file at the root of my project containing the following code:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": ["bun-types"],
  }
}

Hope this helps :)

Thank you so much for your time and the info.

I did exactly that and reloaded the TS language server.
What now? 🥲

[angelhdzdev]

Solved

I installed bun-types and added it to compilerOptions.types array and it didn't work... but then I executed bun install and now it works.

[angelhdzdev]

What caught my attention about bun, wasn't speed (everyone is obsessed with authoring/compiling/run time speed these days), was the "out of the box" characteristic, but having to install the types separately gave me a bad impression.

Now wondering "what else I have to add now?" I also had to activate strict mode, I expected it to be enabled by default...

[souporserious]

I was able to do bun add @types/bun and it fixed the type error in VS Code without any additional configuration.