Generate/publish *.ts.d

[cryptcoin-junkey]

They are very useful in developing stable applications with TypeScript.

[FredKSchott]

+1! Excited to see there's a desire for the consumer type declarations!

For background this wasn't turned off for any particular reason, just to keep the original move to TS simple. So 👍 for turning them on for the next release.

[intelliot]

@FredKSchott How are declaration files typically used? Is it automatically parsed by editors like VS Code?

[FredKSchott]

Exactly, the definition files (.d.ts) are what allow your editors / editor plugins / build step to understand ripple-lib when it's a dependency and warn when it's used incorrectly.

[darkmemo]

Afaik, additionally types property in package.json should point to main types declaration file.

[...]
"main": "dist/npm",
"name": "ripple-lib",
"types": "dist/npm/index.d.ts"
[...]

See https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/declaration-files/publishing.html

Without this I always get Could not find a declaration file for module 'ripple-lib'. '../ripple-lib/dist/npm/index.js' implicitly has an 'any' type... error. (I have "noImplicitAny": true in tsconfig.json.)

When I add "types": "dist/npm/index.d.ts" to package.json of ripple-lib, module and types are resolved correctly. (Using typescript version 2.7.2)

[FredKSchott]

@darkmemo good catch!