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mstruebing
mstruebing

Reputation: 1792

Use type definition of similiar package

I'm using fabric-with-gestures in my Typescript application and everything is fine. However, the original library fabric has types defined and I can install them with npm install --dev @types/fabric but Typescript doesn't recognize them for the fabric-with-gestures package.

How could I use the typings from fabric together with fabric-with-gestures as there is no module @types/fabric-with-gestures and I'm assuming that the types are mostly the same? Is this even possible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 180

Answers (1)

ford04
ford04

Reputation: 74490

For all packages in general, you can create a type alias by adding baseUrl and paths options to your tsconfig.json (I don't use fabric, but a quick setup just did compile successfully).

tsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    ...
    // absolute name imports are resolved relative to baseUrl
    "baseUrl": ".", 
    // alias "fabric-with-gestures" is mapped to path of fabric @types
    "paths": { 
      "fabric-with-gestures": ["node_modules/@types/fabric"]
    }
  }
}

Usage:

// Use fabric-with-gestures. Types are internally mapped to @types/fabric
import { fabric } from "fabric-with-gestures";

Upvotes: 4

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