TS2305: Module '"@prisma/client"' has no exported member 'User'

Question

I am try to set up a Gitlab CI for a nestjs project that uses prisma. When I run the pipeline, I get this error: enter image description here

My .gitlab-ci.yml:

image: node:latest

stages:
  - build

build:
  stage: build
  before_script:
    - corepack enable
    - corepack prepare pnpm@latest-8 --activate
    - pnpm config set store-dir .pnpm-store
  script:
    - pnpm install
    - npx prisma generate
    - pnpm run build
  cache:
    key:
      files:
        - pnpm-lock.yaml
    paths:
      - .pnpm-store
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - dist

user.models.ts:

import { User } from "@prisma/client"; # Line that is causing the build to fail in the CI
import { IsEmail, IsInt, IsNotEmpty, IsString } from "class-validator";

class UserModel implements User {
    @IsNotEmpty()
    @IsInt()
    id: number;

    @IsNotEmpty()
    @IsString()
    @IsEmail()
    email: string;

    @IsNotEmpty()
    @IsString()
    password: string;
}

Running pnpm run build locally works fine.

With the following scripts I have manually looked at the output generated by prisma, and I can see that User is being exported as a type from index.d.ts.

- cd ./node_modules/.prisma/client
- cat index.d.ts
- cd ../../..

Answer 1

For anybody else with this issue, make sure you have set output value as it is below in your prisma.schema file for types to be stored, this ideally will be your node_modules directory

generator client {
  ...
  output = "../../node_modules/.prisma/client"
  ...
}