DefinitelyTyped/types/nova-editor

Nova extensions run in an extension of Apple's JavaScriptCore, which means they're not being executed in a node js or browser environment.

Unfortunately, the nature of the typing ecosystem means @types/node is very commonly included, either explicitly through dependencies (yarn why @types/node shows something) or implicitly in a dependency's types (tsc --traceResolution finds a <reference types="node">). This results in duplicate global definitions and errors like this:

../DefinitelyTyped/types/nova-editor/index.d.ts:21:15 - error TS2451: Cannot redeclare block-scoped variable '__dirname'.

21 declare const __dirname: string;
                 ~~~~~~~~~

  ../DefinitelyTyped/types/node/globals.d.ts:148:13
    148 declare var __dirname: string;
                    ~~~~~~~~~
    '__dirname' was also declared here.

Explicit excluding can be fixed using @types, typeRoots and types by adding the following to your tsconfig to explicitly exclude @types/node, but reference including cannot be fixed without patching dependency code.

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "types": ["nova-editor"]
    }
}

For this reason I've decided to expose a separate package that's compatible with @types/node. If you see errors like those described above, you can use @types/nova-editor-node instead.