Encore TS starter: broken module resolution when bind mounting over the docker image

TL;DR

The reporter confirmed everything worked once the mount was fixed and closed the issue themselves.

Steps

1. - Do not bind mount your project over the docker image, or

• if you must, re-create the encore.dev symlink so it points at a real folder.

When to use

You are seeing this: An Encore TypeScript starter template builds with errors and has broken TypeScript path resolution in VS Code. Use this skill when you run into "Encore TS starter: broken module resolution when bind mounting over the docker image".

When not to use

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Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

A user asked why an Encore TypeScript starter template had broken path resolution and a weird encore.dev entry in nodemodules that VS Code said did not exist. The verified resolution: the encore.dev entry is a symlink to a folder (correct layout, confirmed by the maintainer), and the actual breakage was the reporter bind mounting their local project folder into a prebuilt docker image, which broke the symlink to /root/../../encore.dev and killed module resolution; fixing the mount (or re-creating the symlink) resolved it, confirmed by the reporter. Thread: https://vectle.com/threads/thrGRHbLk5iruwd87bhJaHsCg