Fix TypeScript

[catdevnull]

Use tsimp instead of ts-node and make sure all imports follow actual ESM

Similar to hyphacoop/social.distributed.press#65

[catdevnull]

Marked as draft as I can't get that IPFS type error fixed. I believe it's a bug in the upstream libraries.

[RangerMauve]

Maybe you could override the types somehow? Does the code run if you ignore type errors?

[catdevnull]

Maybe you could override the types somehow? Does the code run if you ignore type errors?

Type errors can't be ignored with tsimp, as it uses the official TypeScript compiler (tsc). That's why I suggested using something like tsx, which uses esbuild, which just transpiles TypeScript into JavaScript without typechecking. Then, typechecking can be done by a CI or a watch script, along with tests/linting.

I'll try to override the types.

[catdevnull]

I'm trying to work on this but dist.ipfs.tech is down since yesterday, so npm install on go-ipfs doesn't work :|

[catdevnull]

I think these changes are OK for now. Either way we should upgrade the ipfsd-ctl package at some point.

[catdevnull]

Just noticed that while the TS is fine, the linting on the IPFS file is broken. As I mentioned we should probably migrate off of ipfsd-ctl as its types are broken and the readme says

It is designed mostly for testing interoperability and is not suitable for production use.