@apollo/gateway doesn't include node-fetch in its dependencies

[migueloller]

When using @apollo/gateway@0.10.8, TypeScript fails because it can't find the types for node-fetch. This happens specifically here. It looks like node-fetch should be added as a dependency, or at least @types/node-fetch.

[msheakoski]

I ran into this recently and had to add @types/node-fetch to my devDependencies in order to fix failing builds. Depending on the order that you add/update dependencies, node-fetch usually manages to sneak in, but if you rm -rf node_modules yarn.lock && yarn install, the missing node-fetch error happens pretty consistently.

I don't use node-fetch directly in my project, and since you can't have comments in package.json, the dependency will end up becoming one of those random things that everyone needs to remember in order to not break builds.

I really hope this gets fixed soon for better DX and reduced element of surprise.