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Obed Parlapiano
Obed Parlapiano

Reputation: 3682

Tell TypeScript to use the types of another module to current module with different name

I'm using a module (dom-to-image) that has Types (through Definitely Typed) but is unmantained, so I'm using a fork (called dom-to-image-more) of it with a few more updates. However, the fork doesn't have types.

How can I tell TypeScript to use dom-to-image's types but assign them to the other module? Since they're installed through @types/dom-to-image TypeSript automatically assigns them to that module (if I understand how it works correctly, I may now).

I can shut TS from complaining by creating a .d.ts file and adding declare module "dom-to-image-more";. But I'd like to maintain the original Types.

A simple solution is to copy-paste the types from the module into my .d.ts, but I'd prefer to reuse the original types.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 658

Answers (1)

aleksxor
aleksxor

Reputation: 8340

You may try to install @types/dom-to-image under alias @types/dom-to-image-more:

yarn add -D @types/dom-to-image-more@npm:@types/dom-to-image

or

npm install --save-dev @types/dom-to-image-more@npm:@types/dom-to-image

In the package.json file it will be:

"@types/dom-to-image-more": "npm:@types/dom-to-image"

And you can control versions as regular:

"@types/dom-to-image-more": "npm:@types/dom-to-image@^2.6.3"

Upvotes: 3

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