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Reputation: 334

How to use DefinitelyTyped types on forked packages?

For packages that don't come with it's own types, next step is to look for @types/<package> for the package typings. However, if there is a package X, which is forked to a package Y. How can we use the same @types/<X> package for the package Y?

Edit:

Example: node-bunyan doesn't have types. @types/bunyan exists and provides types. Now, I am trying to use a fork of node-bunyan(@scoop/bunyan) while still being able to utilize types from @types/bunyan.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1117

Answers (2)

tremby
tremby

Reputation: 10069

You could pretend to NPM that the DT types have a different package name which matches your fork.

npm i -D @types/scoop__bunyan@npm:@types/node-bunyan

(This did the job for me just now -- I was suggested this idea by Gerrit0 on the Typescript Discord.)

Upvotes: 2

strdr4605
strdr4605

Reputation: 4352

Update:

By looking at this and this.

Probably you can add in your tsconfig.json

   "paths":{
      "@scoop/bunyan": ["./node_modules/@types/bunyan"]
    }

Maybe you can add you to the package Y in package.json the path to @types/<X>.

{
    ...
    "types": "./node_modules/@types/<X>/lib/main.d.ts",
    ...
}

Upvotes: 6

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