Cannot find name 'AbortSignal' during npm run build

Question

node_modules/axios/index.d.ts:93:12 - error TS2304: Cannot find name 'AbortSignal'.

93   signal?: AbortSignal;
              ~~~~~~~~~~~


Found 1 error.

When trying npm run build comand for node typescript project, i am getting above error, something related to axio package. before axio usage, npm run build working fine.

Answer 1

You need to add DOM to the lib array in your tsconfig.json:

"lib": [
      "es2018",
      "DOM"
    ],

Answer 2

You could also add "skipLibCheck": true, to your tsconfig.json under compilerOptions. This will ignore errors that are present in libs under node_modules