Cannot find modules and type definition files

[ajsb85]

$ npm test

> typescript-node-api@1.0.1 test /Users/username/GitHub/typescript-node-api
> mocha --reporter spec --compilers ts:ts-node/register 'test/**/*.test.ts'


/Users/username/GitHub/typescript-node-api/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:312
          throw new TSError(formatDiagnostics(diagnosticList, cwd, ts, lineOffset))
                ^
TSError: ? Unable to compile TypeScript
Cannot find type definition file for 'body-parser'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'chai'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'chai-http'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'debug'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'express'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'express-serve-static-core'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'mime'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'mocha'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'morgan'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'node'. (2688)
Cannot find type definition file for 'serve-static'. (2688)
test/helloWorld.test.ts (1,24): Cannot find module 'mocha'. (2307)
test/helloWorld.test.ts (2,23): Cannot find module 'chai'. (2307)
test/helloWorld.test.ts (3,27): Cannot find module 'chai-http'. (2307)
test/helloWorld.test.ts (5,17): Cannot find module '../src/App'. (2307)
test/helloWorld.test.ts (10,1): Cannot find name 'describe'. (2304)
test/helloWorld.test.ts (12,3): Cannot find name 'it'. (2304)
test/helloWorld.test.ts (19,3): Cannot find name 'it'. (2304)

[mjhea0]

Is this still an issue?

[jhenrich]

I get the exact same error on my side.

// Edit
I just updated my ts-node packages to the latest version and now it works

[mjhea0]

Strange. Can I see your package.json?

[hoangnguyenba]

Same to me. Here's my packag:
typescript-node-api@1.0.1 /Users/hoangnguyen/projects/tavi/srccode/api ├── @types/body-parser@1.16.7 ├── @types/chai@4.0.4 ├── @types/chai-http@3.0.3 ├── @types/debug@0.0.30 ├── @types/express@4.0.39 ├── @types/mocha@2.2.44 ├── @types/morgan@1.7.35 ├── @types/node@8.0.47 ├── body-parser@1.18.2 ├── chai@3.5.0 ├── chai-http@3.0.0 ├── debug@2.6.9 ├── express@4.16.2 ├── gulp@3.9.1 ├── gulp-typescript@3.2.3 ├── mocha@3.5.3 ├── morgan@1.9.0 ├── ts-node@1.7.3 └── typescript@2.5.3

[themese]

Hi,
I'm just training myself in node + express and found out this issue by chance.
I solved it by removing the single quotes in
mocha --reporter spec --compilers ts:ts-node/register 'test/**/*.test.ts'
so it looks like this:
mocha --reporter spec --compilers ts:ts-node/register test/**/*.test.ts

Probably everybody by now already know this, but in case somebody comes late to the party same as I did :)