How’s it going, I'm a Adam, a Full-Stack Engineer, actively searching for work. I'm all about JavaScript. And Frontend but don't let that fool you - I've also got some serious Backend skills.
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Ah ... Of course, I wasn't thinking about this context where a library was not originally authored in Typescript (but I was drunk so you can let me off). I'm sure there is tooling to introspect JavaScript libs and generate .d.ts files anyway. When there's a will there's a way.
I am Software Developer, currently interested in static type languages (TypeScript, Elm, ReScript) mostly in the frontend land, but working actively in Python also. I am available for mentoring.
How’s it going, I'm a Adam, a Full-Stack Engineer, actively searching for work. I'm all about JavaScript. And Frontend but don't let that fool you - I've also got some serious Backend skills.
Location
City of Bath, UK 🇬🇧
Education
10 plus years* active enterprise development experience and a Fine art degree 🎨
So you see a definition file is not desirable to hand write because, it's bad enough maintaing code that actually do something, can you imagine refactoring this every time you make a change as well, people would rage quit typescript. I used to do it by hand then decide I cba. But there we go, you can and should generate as much as possible.
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Ah ... Of course, I wasn't thinking about this context where a library was not originally authored in Typescript (but I was drunk so you can let me off). I'm sure there is tooling to introspect JavaScript libs and generate .d.ts files anyway. When there's a will there's a way.
Yes there is github.com/microsoft/dts-gen
Thank you Maciej and thank you Microsoft.
So you see a definition file is not desirable to hand write because, it's bad enough maintaing code that actually do something, can you imagine refactoring this every time you make a change as well, people would rage quit typescript. I used to do it by hand then decide I cba. But there we go, you can and should generate as much as possible.