TS2307: Cannot find module '@app/express-base' or its corresponding type declarations when using paths

So everything was working fine locally, until I pushed to github and my release github action failed. Then my nightmare started.

That nasty error kept showing itself. I tried everything in my power, but the error seemed to be the stronger guy here, flexing it's muscles on my tired brain.

Then I buckled up, spun up my vps, reinistalled the app and boom. Same error.

I even started debugging ts-node and tsconfig-paths directly from node_modules to figure it out but yet, no clue.

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Solution

Since I was using git submodules, the path @app/express-base was pointing to that sub module which wasn't initialized in production. I had already initialized it in dev, that's why it was working locally.

In prod, I needed to run git submodule update --remote in order to initialize it.


If you didn't get anything in all I just said, then I summarize it as, "make sure your path value is pointing to a path that actually EXISTS"

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