k6 – Handling Build Failures with the xk6-enhanced Extension

As of April 2, 2024, the xk6-enhanced extension for making k6 TypeScript-compatible has been incorporated into xk6-ts.

When building the k6 command with xk6, use xk6-ts instead.

Issue

For example, if you tried to build with the following command:

xk6 build 
--with github.com/LeonAdato/xk6-output-statsd@latest 
--with github.com/grafana/xk6-dashboard@latest 
--with github.com/szkiba/xk6-enhanced@latest 
--with github.com/szkiba/xk6-dotenv@latest

You would now encounter the following error:

go: downloading github.com/szkiba/xk6-enhanced v0.2.0
go: k6 imports
    github.com/szkiba/xk6-enhanced: github.com/szkiba/xk6-enhanced@v0.2.0: parsing go.mod:
    module declares its path as: github.com/szkiba/xk6-ts
            but was required as: github.com/szkiba/xk6-enhanced

Solution

Use xk6-ts instead of xk6-enhanced:

xk6 build 
--with github.com/LeonAdato/xk6-output-statsd@latest 
--with github.com/grafana/xk6-dashboard@latest 
--with github.com/szkiba/xk6-ts@latest 
--with github.com/szkiba/xk6-dotenv@latest

Note that xk6-ts can be temporarily disabled by setting XK6_TS to false.