Local development fails: yarn fetch-data:local cannot find generated/types

[nicolelaine]

Description

Following the README instructions for local development results in a failure during the fetch-data:local step, which prevents the application from running locally.

Steps to reproduce

• Clone the repository
• Create .env.local as described in the README at root level
• Run:

yarn install
yarn fetch-data:local

Expected behavior

• yarn fetch-data:local runs successfully
• Required local data files (e.g. fullData/staticData.json) are generated
• yarn dev starts without build-time module resolution errors

Actual behavior

Running yarn fetch-data:local fails with:

TSError: ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript:
scripts/fetchData.ts:4:30 - error TS2307: Cannot find module '../generated/types'

Notes

• The generated/types directory does not exist after cloning the repository
• yarn install does not create this directory
• The README does not document a step that generates generated/types
• The failure seems to occur before any API requests are made
• When skipping the fetch-data:local step and going directly to yarn dev, the following error occurs on port 3020:

Failed to compile

./src/pages/[locale]/index.tsx:26:0
Module not found: Can't resolve 'fullData/staticData.json'
  24 | import Section from 'components/Section';
  25 | import getBlogs, { Blog } from 'utils/requests/getBlogs';
> 26 | import data from 'fullData/staticData.json';
  27 | 
  28 | import i18nextConfig from '@/next-i18next.config';
  29 | 

https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/module-not-found

Let me know if you have any questions, and happy to help with any testing.

[nicolelaine]

Managed to run the site locally by adding a fullData directory to the root of the repo, putting a file in it called staticData.json, where I just added the following: {}

Then you skip running fetch-data:local and go straight to yarn dev. Then it worked on port 3020.