Import attributes break message exporting

[brawaru]

Which package?

@formatjs/cli@6.2.12

Describe the bug

When import attributes are used in the code, @formatjs/cli fails to extract messages despite tsc being able to successfully check the file.

The following errors are printed to console:

[@formatjs/cli] [WARN] Error: index.mts:2:43 - error TS1005: ';' expected.

2 import { doSomething } from './other.mjs' with { type: 'macro' }
                                            ~~~~
index.mts:2:48 - error TS1005: '(' expected.

2 import { doSomething } from './other.mjs' with { type: 'macro' }
                                                 ~
index.mts:4:1 - error TS1005: ')' expected.

4 export const msg = defineMessage({
  ~~~~~~

To Reproduce

Codesandbox URL

https://stackblitz.com/edit/node-by7zrp?file=package.json

Reproducible Steps/Repo

1. Create file b.mts with contents like:

export function myMacro() {
  return { id: 'woo' }
}

2. Create file a.mts with contents like:

import { defineMessage } from '@formatjs/intl'
import { myMacro } from './b.mts' with { type: 'macro' }

export const greeting = defineMessage({
  id: 'greeting',
  defaultMessage: 'Hello, {name}!',
})

export const smthnElse = myMacro()

3. Try to extract messages from a.mts

pnpm formatjs extract a.mts --out-file output.json

Expected behavior

Extraction completes without errors and yields a file output.json with contents:

{
  "greeting": {
    "defaultMessage": "Hello, {name}!"
  }
}

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[evert]

Also just ran into this! We actually used the assert keyword instead of with, but starting Node 22 assert is dropped. Honestly kinda surprising to see a non-flagged stable feature dropped in Node.

nodejs/node#52104

I'm downgrading to Node 20 as we speak, as formatjs extract not breaking trumps being on Node 22

[brawaru]

I believe the solution is to upgrade TypeScript package used by @formatjs/cli-lib and then add module: ts.ModuleKind.Preserve to compilerOptions. Preserve will allow to be import-agnostic, supporting both require and import. Unfortunately, this is not something you can patch in locally, because it seems that @formatjs/cli bundles everything, including TypeScript it is using.

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[evert]

Thank you creating this package. As an open source maintainer myself I know it can be a thankless task.

But bots that automatically close issues before triage is pretty hostile for end users :(

[longlho]

@brawaru I can't repro from the link you posted using the latest @formatjs/cli :-/ I've added an integration test as well

[brawaru]

@longlho oh, seems that it's fixed by some update, then. Though, doesn't seem that the relevant code changed at all, perhaps it's just a transitive dependency update that fixed it (TypeScript?). Either way, that's great 🥳 Thank you for looking into this! ❤️ I'll close this as complete.