Why does the "This dependency was not found" error occur?

Question

typescript

Until some time, the project started normally, but one fine day (from scratch, i.e. no changes were made to the project and node_modules) when I ran the npm run dev command, this story popped up:



In the .nuxt/middleware itself .js, when built, the following entry is generated:

const middleware = {}
middleware['admin-auth'] = require('..\\client\\middleware\\admin-auth.ts')
middleware['admin-auth'] = middleware['admin-auth'].default || middleware['admin-auth']
export default middleware

The admin-auth.ts file absolutely lies on the path you are looking for: /client/middleware/admin-auth.ts

Its contents are:

import { Middleware } from '@nuxt/types'

const authMiddleware: Middleware = ({ store, redirect }): void => {
  if (!store.getters['auth/isAuthenticated']) {
    return redirect('/admin/login?message=login')
  }
}

export default authMiddleware

tsconfig looks like this:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es2019",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "lib": ["DOM", "DOM.Iterable", "es2020"],
    "sourceMap": true,
    "rootDir": "./",
    "removeComments": true,
    "noEmitOnError": false,
    "strict": true,
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "strictNullChecks": true,
    "noUnusedLocals": true,
    "noUncheckedIndexedAccess": false,
    "noPropertyAccessFromIndexSignature": false,
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "paths": {
      "~/*": ["./*"],
      "@/*": ["./*"]
    },
    "types": [
      "@types/node",
      "@nuxt/types",
      "@nuxtjs/axios",
      "buefy/types"
    ],
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
  }
}

What is this joke, and how to unsee it?