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Lambyte
Lambyte

Reputation: 33

Should a TypeScript Library's repo contain the JS version?

Should the repository for a library written in Typescript contain a JS version for the consumer? Or should I leave it to the consumer to compile it themselves? Or neither?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 163

Answers (1)

user8086575
user8086575

Reputation:

As a general rule, I only include the source files in the repo. There is a reasonable expectation that a person downloading the source will want to work with the source and build it. Meanwhile you can offer build tools/commands to help them build it. For npm modules, your package.json might have a postinstall script that runs the tsc command. As long as TypeScript is a dependency, npm will download the necessary libraries and execute the TypeScript build when the user does an npm install on the repo once cloned locally.

Upvotes: 1

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