描述
Getting access to the types in my main source. My source is all JS, it exports no types... all the type exports are ambient modules.
I’m proposing the inverse: define your types in your code.
I dunno what that means? You mean declare them in highlight.js itself and then export them, import them into index.d.ts and then reexport them? I'm not sure I know how to do that if that's possible - or advisable?
Indeed: write them in JavaScript. No need to add a manual index.d.ts: typescript can compile javascript and generate that index.d.ts.
Here’s a smaller example: https://github.com/words/levenshtein-edit-distance/commit/2c3d890068b0d9405881a94f1439b31f8d08c392.
Lowlight is a bit more involved.
A bit more complex is unist-util-select: https://github.com/syntax-tree/unist-util-select/commit/4c1b02e34f849394bc90b42ea3bce0f52d9b2512.
And quite complex is xdm: https://github.com/wooorm/xdm.
I am not a fan of typescript. I personally don’t really love types either. But they are somewhat useful — especially for newcomers to a giant ecosystem (unified).
I think types through jsdoc in javascript is rather nice: code is directly runnable, no building needed. But everything is still type checked by typescript (and I like type-coverage to ensure everything is completely typed).
It ensures .d.ts are kept up to date and work
Some more info here: https://github.com/voxpelli/types-in-js
Originally posted by @wooorm in https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/3131#issuecomment-824157692