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lottie-types

Representation of the Lottie JSON Schema in Typescript.

The schema types have been built based on lottie-docs/schema and inspired by lottie-jsonschema with a few differences: firstly, some additional informative type comments have been added through testing the schema types with real Lottie data; secondly, the types constructed in a way to avoid duplications.

Instead of writing the schema types manually, generating it automatically was considered but wasn't successful, for reason that most of the tools such as quicktype, json-schema-to-typescript and transform don't work well with huge JSON-schema structures with many nested layers and don't support json-schema/draft/2020-12 features such as conditionals, prefixItems, and some def reference scenarios.

The schema definitions have been synced with https://github.com/marcusstenbeck/lottie-types as well.

Todo

test with many Lottie JSON files
open source it

Development

The following steps will get you setup to contribute changes to this repo:

Fork this repo.
Clone your forked repo: git clone https://github.com/LottieFiles/lottie-types
Run yarn to install dependencies.
Please sync any schema changes with lottie-docs
You should follow our Commit-Message-Standardization
You should add changesets running yarn changelog for any change to your codebase. You must ensure Changesets are included when making a Pull Request to merge to main branches. Please refer to our creating-changesets docs.
Create a PR from feature-branch to main
After merging to main the Github action will create another PR for only version bumping and changelog, which you have to merge manually.
After the mannual merge the package will be released.
Create a git tag manually and run git push --follow-tags to make it available in Github.

Comands

Command	Description
`yarn clean`	Deletes `index.d.ts` file
`yarn test`	Run tests (wip)
`yarn format:prettier`	Format the code using prettier
`yarn build`	Bundles all declaration type files into a single file `index.d.ts`
`yarn changelog`	Add a changeset changelog entry
`yarn changelog:check`	Check pending changesets
`yarn release:version`	Update all the workspace projects versions using changesets
`yarn release:publish`	Publish the packages to the package repository

Tests

There was an attempt to create run-time validations for testing many real Lottie file examples, so we could prove the structure of this Lottie schema types, but it wasn't successful because the Lottie format is huge and has recursive types which leads the tools to hiccup and reach the TSError 7056 or don't work at all. The libraries I've tested so far live in these branches:

mf/zod (doesn't throw TSError 7056 while using Zod Type Inference, but still, Layer and Asset validation parsers don't work)
mf/zod-schema (throws TSError 7056)
mf/superstruct (throws TSError 7056)
mf/ajv (works but wasn't fully tested because it has been built mainly around JSON schema and doesn't provide full error information)

Thus, we are considering building an Abstract Syntax Tree :)