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I’m working on getting my dev environment ready to start working on a custom block. However, I’m running into an error.


After running block run in Terminal and allowing my browser to load https://localhost:9000, opening the block in Airtable yields:


/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@airtable/blocks-cli/transpiled/src/builder/node_modules/yaml/index.d.ts: Namespace not marked type-only declare. Non-declarative namespaces are only supported experimentally in Babel. To enable and review caveats see: https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-transform-typescript

  107 |   str: scalarOptions.Str

  108 | }

> 109 | export namespace scalarOptions {

      |                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  110 |   interface Binary {

  111 |     /**

  112 |      * The type of string literal used to stringify `!!binary` values.

Any ideas as to how to start troubleshooting this? Admittedly, I work more with Python and this is my first dive into Node development.

Hi!


Two things that might help narrow it down:



  1. What version of node are you using? node --version

  2. What packages (if any) have you add to the block? cat package.json



  1. What version of node are you using? node --version

  2. What packages (if any) have you add to the block? cat package.json





  1. v14.4.0




  2. I haven’t done anything but start my block from the Hello World and Wikipedia examples — both yielded the same errors when I tried to run them. This is what I got as output:


    {

    “dependencies”: {

    “@airtable/blocks”: “0.0.53”,

    “react”: “^16.13.0”,

    “react-dom”: “^16.13.0”

    },

    “devDependencies”: {

    “eslint”: “^6.8.0”,

    “eslint-plugin-react”: “^7.18.3”,

    “eslint-plugin-react-hooks”: “^2.5.0”

    },

    “scripts”: {

    “lint”: “eslint frontend”

    }

    }





  1. What version of node are you using? node --version

  2. What packages (if any) have you add to the block? cat package.json





  1. v14.4.0




  2. I haven’t done anything but start my block from the Hello World and Wikipedia examples — both yielded the same errors when I tried to run them. This is what I got as output:


    {

    “dependencies”: {

    “@airtable/blocks”: “0.0.53”,

    “react”: “^16.13.0”,

    “react-dom”: “^16.13.0”

    },

    “devDependencies”: {

    “eslint”: “^6.8.0”,

    “eslint-plugin-react”: “^7.18.3”,

    “eslint-plugin-react-hooks”: “^2.5.0”

    },

    “scripts”: {

    “lint”: “eslint frontend”

    }

    }




Hi Matt,


It seems like there’s something a little weird going on with your blocks-cli package. The file from that error message doesn’t actually exist in the normal distribution of @airtable/blocks-cli. Could you try re-installing the cli tool to see if the error message changes?


npm uninstall --global @airtable/blocks-cli

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@airtable/blocks-cli

npm install --global @airtable/blocks-cli

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