Fix a bunch of type errors and add a type-check to the github workflows (#837)

* Add yarn type-check

* Rename to yarn typecheck

* Fix a collection of type errors

* Add typecheck to automated tests

* add `dist` to exluded folders tsconfig

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Co-authored-by: Ansh Nanda <anshnanda10@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tsconfig.check.json b/tsconfig.check.json
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+{
+  "extends": "./tsconfig.json",
+  "exclude": ["__e2e__", "dist"],
+}