infinitay / path-alias-issue

A POC for an issue I am getting when using Typescript, alias paths in tsconfig, and using tsx

I made this repo to reproduce an issue that I am having in my other project while trying to import an enum from my types file. The odd thing is that I can import types just fine from that same file, but when I attempt to reference an enum import my code fails.

Files

• discord-data/scripts/works.ts
  • Only imports a type
  • Works
• discord-data/scripts/fails.ts
  • Imports both a type and an enum
  • Fails with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND
• discord-data/scripts/fails-explicit-path.ts
  • Imports both a type and an enum
  • Fails with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND
  • The difference is that here I'm explicitly importing the relative path

This re-created error's stacktrace:

[Running] tsx "e:\Documents\Code\NodeJS\path-alias-issue\discord-data\scripts\fails.ts"

node:internal/modules/run_main:115
    triggerUncaughtException(
    ^
Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package '~' imported from e:\Documents\Code\NodeJS\path-alias-issue\discord-data\scripts\fails.ts
    at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:841:9)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:914:18)
    at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1119:11)
    at nextResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/hooks:750:28)
    at resolveBase (file:///C:/Users/me/AppData/Roaming/nvm/v22.3.0/node_modules/tsx/dist/esm/index.mjs?1719933561352:2:3233)
    at async resolveDirectory (file:///C:/Users/me/AppData/Roaming/nvm/v22.3.0/node_modules/tsx/dist/esm/index.mjs?1719933561352:2:3519)
    at async resolve (file:///C:/Users/me/AppData/Roaming/nvm/v22.3.0/node_modules/tsx/dist/esm/index.mjs?1719933561352:2:4036)
    at async nextResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/hooks:750:22)
    at async Hooks.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/hooks:238:24)
    at async handleMessage (node:internal/modules/esm/worker:199:18) {
  code: 'ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND'
}

Node.js v22.3.0