Issues upgrading to v1.6.11 and getting this error? any idea what might be the issue?

liorix

4 weeks ago

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  TacticalSmoores

  4 weeks ago

  I have the same problem. I am currently using 1.5.9 because of it.

  
  https://github.com/payloadcms/nextjs-custom-server/issues/26
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  eloahsam

  4 weeks ago

  I had the the same problem days ago when I moved from 1.5.9 to 1.6.9 …I just created a new payload project and moved my collections and config ..I wonder why this happens

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  So this is because in 1.6.0, we have recently

  removed our automatic config transpilation

  - see the changelog w/ breaking change notes here:

  
  

  
  

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#-payload-now-no-longer-transpiles-your-config-for-you
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  liorix

  4 weeks ago

  @jmikrut I did follow the migration guide and probably missed something, Could you please point me to the specific migration I should do to fix this issue?

  
  

  
  

  we do use typescript in this project

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  TacticalSmoores

  4 weeks ago

  Same issue here. I tried to follow the migration guide, but I must be missing something.

  
  
  

  Even the official

  nextjs-custom-server

  example fails

  yarn build

  because of this error.

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  denolfe

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  Basically, you should be using the compiled version of your config

  payload.config.js

  resulting from your build. Previously, you could use a *.ts config in production because Payload would transpile automatically.

  
  
  

  What command are you running to get the error? What PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH?

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  yep - there are lots of ways to handle transpilation for any given Node app that has TS / JSX, but basically, we suggest to use

  ts-node

  to transpile your app

  
  

  
  

  and if you do that, then

  import

  will no longer throw errors in development

  
  

  
  

  but in production, you will probably want to just run

  node

  instead of

  ts-node

  , so you should have already built your project into a

  /dist

  or similar

  
  

  
  

  and then in production, you'd run your app like this

  PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH=dist/payload.config.js NODE_ENV=production node dist/server.js
  

  
  

  and then any files that are used by

  dist/server.js

  should have already been converted to CommonJS (meaning no more

  import

  statements to be found)

  
  

  
  

  the best way to see this all working from top to bottom is to just start up a new

  npx create-payload-app

  and look at the NPM scripts that we ship you

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  TacticalSmoores

  4 weeks ago

  create-payload-app

  is very different from the

  nextjs-custom-server

  setup that was on the YouTube tutorial

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  ahh yes, for that one, we will be updating that package shortly with a way to make that work

  
  

  
  

  which part are you having an error with? we can expedite this

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  TacticalSmoores

  4 weeks ago

  Sorry, @liorix I don't mean to hijack your thread.

  
  
  

  Me personally, I don't understand what exact steps are needed to "use the compiled version of your config payload.config.js instead of *.ts config." as you guys put it.

  
  
  

  It sounds like something needs to change in the

  package.json

  build script, and in the

  tsconfig.json

  and

  tsconfig.server.json

  .

  
  
  

  I don't need a full on tutorial, I really just need a commit history so that I can see what is being changed in your

  nextjs-custom-server

  repo and better understand why.

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  well, nothing changed in our repo, nothing is necessary to change if you have always been using ts

  
  

  
  

  it's only for projects that used to be JS-only

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  TacticalSmoores

  4 weeks ago

  Well I don't understand because the

  nextjs-custom-server

  is typed, yet it can't be built.

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  where is it failing for you? which command?

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  TacticalSmoores

  4 weeks ago

  https://github.com/payloadcms/nextjs-custom-server/issues/26
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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  ok i just followed up with a bit more detail and a plan for fixing this

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  TacticalSmoores

  4 weeks ago

  Saw your response, really appreciate it!

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  sorry for the hassle. this will be taken care of for you shortly

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  liorix

  4 weeks ago

  I eventually scaffolded a new version of payload and copied my collections/etc to the new project and it worked

  
  

  
  

  thanks everyone

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  eloahsam

  4 weeks ago

  yeah that was quick solution aswell😂 sometimes the hardest way is the easiest

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  seth

  last week

  I just spun up a brand new install and I'm still seeing this issue with js

  
  

  
  

  Ah ok I missed this particular line "There are many ways to mitigate this - but the best way is to just quickly scaffold a barebones TS implementation." - So seems that the

  javascript

  option in

  create-payload-app

  is effectively deprecated?

  
  

  
  

  Hmm still not quite success here, I am able to run the development server but I'm getting a ton of ts errors when I try to build, I've never used TypeScript so I'm admittedly very ignorant to the setup there, but is it possible to build a js payload project with the ts config there some other change to the package.json or similar?

  
  

  
  

  It's the

  build:server

  step that is failing. If I leave that out things seem to work, but not sure it's kosher to leave that out. My hunch is there's something about importing my js collections into the ts file that's causing issues?

  
  

  
  

  I'm getting TS2322 on every imported collection

  
  

  
  

  Peppering my

  payload.config.ts

  with a ton of

  @ts-ignore

  comments seems to solve this

  
  

  
  

  But I'm wondering if there's a path for people who won't ever be using ts to not have to do this workaround?