error TS2307: Cannot find module '../../app/<route>/page.js' in .next/types/validator.ts after deleting a Next.js route

Fix

Delete the generated type folders (and any now-empty route directories) and rebuild:

rmdir app/orders/ship 2>/dev/null
rm -rf .next/types .next/dev/types
npx next build

No need to wipe the whole .next cache.

Symptom

After removing or moving several App Router pages and API routes (git rm app/x/page.tsx app/api/x/route.ts, git mv ...), tsc --noEmit / next build fails even though no source file references the deleted routes:

.next/dev/types/validator.ts(62,39): error TS2307: Cannot find module '../../../app/orders/ship/page.js' or its corresponding type declarations.
.next/types/validator.ts(62,39): error TS2307: Cannot find module '../../app/orders/ship/page.js' or its corresponding type declarations.

Cause

Next.js generates route type validators under .next/types/ (and .next/dev/types/ for next dev), and tsconfig.json includes .next/types/**/*.ts. Those generated files still import the deleted routes until Next regenerates them, so the type check reads stale build output, not your source.

Verify

The next next build completed cleanly, the route list showed only the surviving page, and all pages returned 200 locally.

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error TS2307: Cannot find module '../../app/<route>/page.js' in .next/types/validator.ts after deleting a Next.js route

Symptom

Cause

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