npm run build doesn't work on iOS 26.3

[jefffeely]

web-search-mcp-v0.3.2 % npm -v
11.11.0
web-search-mcp-v0.3.2 % node -v
v25.8.0
web-search-mcp-v0.3.2 % npm run build

web-search-mcp-server@0.3.1 build
tsc && echo '✅ TypeScript compilation complete: dist/index.js'

Version 5.9.3
tsc: The TypeScript Compiler - Version 5.9.3
TS
COMMON COMMANDS

tsc
Compiles the current project (tsconfig.json in the working directory.)

tsc app.ts util.ts
Ignoring tsconfig.json, compiles the specified files with default compiler options.

tsc -b
Build a composite project in the working directory.

tsc --init
Creates a tsconfig.json with the recommended settings in the working directory.

tsc -p ./path/to/tsconfig.json
Compiles the TypeScript project located at the specified path.

tsc --help --all
An expanded version of this information, showing all possible compiler options

tsc --noEmit
tsc --target esnext
Compiles the current project, with additional settings.

COMMAND LINE FLAGS

 --help, -h  Print this message.

--watch, -w  Watch input files.

      --all  Show all compiler options.

--version, -v Print the compiler's version.

     --init  Initializes a TypeScript project and creates a tsconfig.json file.

--project, -p Compile the project given the path to its configuration file, or to a folder with a 'tsconfig.json'.

--showConfig Print the final configuration instead of building.

--build, -b  Build one or more projects and their dependencies, if out of date

COMMON COMPILER OPTIONS

           --pretty  Enable color and formatting in TypeScript's output to make compiler errors easier to read.
              type:  boolean
           default:  true

  --declaration, -d  Generate .d.ts files from TypeScript and JavaScript files in your project.
              type:  boolean
           default:  `false`, unless `composite` is set

   --declarationMap  Create sourcemaps for d.ts files.
              type:  boolean
           default:  false

--emitDeclarationOnly Only output d.ts files and not JavaScript files.
type: boolean
default: false

        --sourceMap  Create source map files for emitted JavaScript files.
              type:  boolean
           default:  false

           --noEmit  Disable emitting files from a compilation.
              type:  boolean
           default:  false

       --target, -t  Set the JavaScript language version for emitted JavaScript and include compatible library dec                         larations.
            one of:  es5, es6/es2015, es2016, es2017, es2018, es2019, es2020, es2021, es2022, es2023, es2024, esne                         xt
           default:  es5

       --module, -m  Specify what module code is generated.
            one of:  none, commonjs, amd, umd, system, es6/es2015, es2020, es2022, esnext, node16, node18, node20,                          nodenext, preserve
           default:  undefined

              --lib  Specify a set of bundled library declaration files that describe the target runtime environme                         nt.
       one or more:  es5, es6/es2015, es7/es2016, es2017, es2018, es2019, es2020, es2021, es2022, es2023, es2024,                          esnext, dom, dom.iterable, dom.asynciterable, webworker, webworker.importscripts, webworker.i                         terable, webworker.asynciterable, scripthost, es2015.core, es2015.collection, es2015.generato                         r, es2015.iterable, es2015.promise, es2015.proxy, es2015.reflect, es2015.symbol, es2015.symbo                         l.wellknown, es2016.array.include, es2016.intl, es2017.arraybuffer, es2017.date, es2017.objec                         t, es2017.sharedmemory, es2017.string, es2017.intl, es2017.typedarrays, es2018.asyncgenerator                         , es2018.asynciterable/esnext.asynciterable, es2018.intl, es2018.promise, es2018.regexp, es20                         19.array, es2019.object, es2019.string, es2019.symbol/esnext.symbol, es2019.intl, es2020.bigi                         nt/esnext.bigint, es2020.date, es2020.promise, es2020.sharedmemory, es2020.string, es2020.sym                         bol.wellknown, es2020.intl, es2020.number, es2021.promise, es2021.string, es2021.weakref/esne                         xt.weakref, es2021.intl, es2022.array, es2022.error, es2022.intl, es2022.object, es2022.strin                         g, es2022.regexp, es2023.array, es2023.collection, es2023.intl, es2024.arraybuffer, es2024.co                         llection, es2024.object/esnext.object, es2024.promise, es2024.regexp/esnext.regexp, es2024.sh                         aredmemory, es2024.string/esnext.string, esnext.array, esnext.collection, esnext.intl, esnext                         .disposable, esnext.promise, esnext.decorators, esnext.iterator, esnext.float16, esnext.error                         , esnext.sharedmemory, decorators, decorators.legacy
           default:  undefined

          --allowJs  Allow JavaScript files to be a part of your program. Use the 'checkJs' option to get errors f                         rom these files.
              type:  boolean
           default:  false

          --checkJs  Enable error reporting in type-checked JavaScript files.
              type:  boolean
           default:  false

              --jsx  Specify what JSX code is generated.
            one of:  preserve, react, react-native, react-jsx, react-jsxdev
           default:  undefined

          --outFile  Specify a file that bundles all outputs into one JavaScript file. If 'declaration' is true, a                         lso designates a file that bundles all .d.ts output.

           --outDir  Specify an output folder for all emitted files.

   --removeComments  Disable emitting comments.
              type:  boolean
           default:  false

           --strict  Enable all strict type-checking options.
              type:  boolean
           default:  false

            --types  Specify type package names to be included without being referenced in a source file.

  --esModuleInterop  Emit additional JavaScript to ease support for importing CommonJS modules. This enables 'allo                         wSyntheticDefaultImports' for type compatibility.
              type:  boolean
           default:  false

[Thorwegian]

Confirming that I have the same issue on macOS 15.6 with tooling installed from Homebrew. tsc (v5.9.3) expects a tsconfig.json but no such file exists in the project root. It's been 7 months since the last commit. I don't think the project is being maintained anymore.

[rkhaslarov]

Hey, @Thorwegian @jefffeely download "Source code (zip)"

[Thorwegian]

Thank you, @rkhaslarov!

For anyone coming here from this Medium article:
https://medium.com/@anojrs/adding-web-search-to-lm-studio-via-mcp-d4b257fbd589

It's not accurate.

Looking over the README, the one who wrote this GitHub project was either in a hurry or he made an LLM write it. The README is a bit messy and the project is somewhat over-engineered. For my part, I just ended up making an account with the Brave Search API and adding that to LM Studio. The whole point of my exercise was to run search locally because cloud is expensive and I work independently, but seeing as I was simply testing if the LLM would become smarter if it could search things...

Result: It got more up-to-date knowledge, but it didn't exactly become smarter... It didn't think to search the answer when it got stuck, for example... It's got infinite patience, like that time I tried ADHD drugs and happily continued down dead ends without losing patience. Being a bit impatient/lazy is actually a good thing. It makes you look for more energy-efficient options. Evolution made us impatient for a reason.

I'm finding that Qwen 3.5 9B is decent enough at verbal reasoning but too stupid to understand a 500-line C program, and that's pretty much all I can run on the M2 Mac that I was barely able to afford. Claude in the cloud is out of the question. Who has that kind of money?

A CEO friend of mine from the industry thinks FOSS is becoming increasingly irrelevant since he can just ask Claude to write a clone of whatever. Truly spoken like a man with a thick wallet. I think we're looking at the death of "getting a foot in the door". The people with the money have found a way of mass producing engineers, and it's all because those of us who came of age in the early 21th century believed in the notion that information wants to be free.

Yeah, tell that to a businessman or a politician. The entire idea is to hold back information to get the upper hand. And this is especially true now, now that information is just more food for the LLMs that only the rich can afford to own. An LLM I asked for career advice told me to make my work visible online.

Thing is... No human will notice. They're all busy scrolling Instagram, where lonely people with mental disorders are uploading videos, begging for attention. But the bots scraping the Internet for data sets sure will... God, I hate people.

Why pick the comments section for an LLM tool for this rant? Well, for one, programmers will come across it. Also, why not? It's relevant for the profession. I did not learn to code because I thought it would make me money. I did learn to code because I thought it would make me friends. Turns out it mainly makes you money. I get by on what money I have. I have a free will and I use it, without asking for permission.

[jefffeely]

Hey, @Thorwegian @jefffeely download "Source code (zip)"

I did this and it worked.

[jefffeely]

I did not learn to code because I thought it would make me money. I did learn to code because I thought it would make me friends. Turns out it mainly makes you money.

So..... instead of being friends, can I have your money?