[Pkg-javascript-devel] typescript-types removal

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Xavier (2020-11-05 12:07:40)
> following a previous discussion, I'm working to embed all @types/foo
> into node-foo.
>  * DONE: many
>  * TODO: backbone (Jonas, can you do it?), lodash, handlebars, jsdom,
>          marked, mathjax, minimist, requirejs, sax, semver, shelljs,
>          sizzle, underscore
> 
> There will be 2 @types/foo remaining after and we've to decide where to
> put them:
>  * @types/node: embed in nodejs in or in node-typescript ?
>    I prefer to embed in nodejs to have the @types/node who matches to
>    current nodejs (see #964637)
>  * @types/estree: embed directly in node-typescript ?

I have finally wrapped my head around this - sorry for the delay.

It is bad to embed type definitions with Nodejs: Even though they 
_reflect_ the Nodejs ABI, they are maintained independently and is it 
painful to need a recompile of Nodejs for a change of the type 
definitions.

I suggest to embed it with a tiny popular general-purpose package - but 
I am not sure which is more ideal.  Seems to me that node-inherits or 
node-safe-buffer are good candidates...


It is bad to embed type definitions with node-typescript: It adds 
baggage to non-TypeScript consumers of the package.

I have now embedded @types/estree with node-eslint-visitor-keys - a tiny 
package related to AST parsing, with only few dependencies.  Please do 
shout if anyone thinks it is better to embed it somewhere else.


 - Jonas

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