Reputation: 6012
Some modules just seem to be invisible to Flow. For example I have react-native-overlay installed via npm into my node_modules directory but I get a whole bunch of errors like this from Flow:
[js/components/DatePickerOverlay.js:18
18: let Overlay = require('react-native-overlay');
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ react-native-overlay. Required module not found
This module doesn't have types so it would be fine if I could just get Flow to ignore it entirely.
Here's my .flowconfig (based on React Native's one):
https://gist.github.com/almost/20c6caf6d18d0e5c689f
As you can see I'm on flow 0.20.1 and I have module.system=haste (as required by React Native)
I tried adding a //$FlowIgnore comment to the import lines but then Flow complains about an unneeded ignore comment! I also tried creating a react-native-flow.js.flow file with a dummy export which seemed to work at first but then after a flow restart stopped working.
Any ideas for how to either help Flow find this module or make it ignore the import line completely?
Upvotes: 3
Views: 9163
Reputation: 4853
This is happening because the library doesn't exist in flow-typed.
A simple fix could be creating the following entry in the .flowconfig file:
[ignore]
<PROJECT_ROOT>/libdefs.js
[libs]
./libdefs.js
If using flowtype < 0.60.0 add in libdefs.js
// @flow
declare module "react-native-overlay" {
declare var exports: any;
}
Or if using flowtype > 0.60.0
declare module 'react-native-overlay' {
declare module.exports: any;
}
Note: any
is an unsafe type so you can always take advantage of improve the definition of the library
Hope that helps,
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 1228
Looks like you're ignoring it here: https://gist.github.com/almost/20c6caf6d18d0e5c689f#file-flowconfig-L42-L50
If you don't mind manually typing it up, add a react-native-overlay.js to your interfaces and type up a couple signatures.
Upvotes: 4