Converting old hubot external scripts from coffeescript to mjs?

[yincrash]

I'm trying to restart from an extremely old version of hubot and have a few coffee scripts. Is there any guide to migrating or can I run them through a converter of some sort?

[joeyguerra]

I haven't created a migration guide. My current thought is that you can use decaffeinate (or ChatGP, or Co-Pilot) to convert the scripts to Javascript.

If you're willing to iterate on it, you can post questions here and I'll answer as best I can to help with the migration. What are your thoughts?

[yincrash]

Okay, so I ended up using coffeescript-to-typescript to convert to TypeScript, and got it to run, however it appears that User.get()/set() now requires a datastore, however it's not clear how to initialize the InMemoryDatastore.

[yincrash]

So, I'm rewriting to use robot.brain.users() instead of robot.users() to use the existing brain interface that my script was using before. The @types/hubot package has robot.datastore set to readonly, so if other scripts want to use the datastore and TypeScript, they would need to alter the @types/hubot package.

[joeyguerra]

Here's the DataStore test that initializes an InMemoryStore.

[yincrash]

Thanks! Successfully migrated my trivia bot - https://github.com/yincrash/hubot-trivia-game