@mitchellhamilton/dts-bundle-generator v0.0.0

DTS Bundle Generator

Small tool to generate a dts bundle from your ts code.

For example:

// a.ts
export class A {}

// b.ts
export class B {}

// entry.ts
import { A } from './a';
import { B } from './b';

declare function makeA(): A;
export function makeB(): B {
    makeA();
    return new B();
}

When you run dts-bundle-generator -o my.d.ts entry.ts in my.d.ts you will get the following:

declare class B {
}
export declare function makeB(): B;

Installation

1. Install the package from npm:

   npm install --save-dev dts-bundle-generator

   or

   npm install -g dts-bundle-generator

2. Enable declaration compiler option in tsconfig.json

Usage

Usage: dts-bundle-generator.js [options] <file(s)>

Options:
  --help                        Show help                                                  [boolean]
  --out-file, -o                File name of generated d.ts                                 [string]
  --verbose                     Enable verbose logging                    [boolean] [default: false]
  --silent                      Disable any logging except errors         [boolean] [default: false]
  --no-check                    Skip validation of generated d.ts file    [boolean] [default: false]
  --fail-on-class               Fail if generated dts contains class declaration
                                                                          [boolean] [default: false]
  --external-inlines            Array of package names from node_modules to inline typings from.
                                Used types will be inlined into the output file              [array]
  --external-imports            Array of package names from node_modules to import typings from.
                                Used types will be imported using "import { First, Second } from
                                'library-name';".
                                By default all libraries will be imported (except inlined libraries
                                and libraries from @types)                                   [array]
  --external-types              Array of package names from @types to import typings from via the
                                triple-slash reference directive.
                                By default all packages are allowed and will be used according to
                                their usages                                                 [array]
  --umd-module-name             Name of the UMD module. If specified then `export as namespace
                                ModuleName;` will be emitted                                [string]
  --project                     Path to the tsconfig.json file that will be used for the compilation
                                                                                            [string]
  --sort                        Sort output nodes                         [boolean] [default: false]
  --inline-declare-global       Enables inlining of `declare global` statements contained in files
                                which should be inlined (all local files and packages from
                                `--external-inlines`)                     [boolean] [default: false]
  --inline-declare-externals    Enables inlining of `declare module` statements of the global
                                modules (e.g. `declare module 'external-module' {}`, but NOT
                                `declare module './internal-module' {}`) contained in files which
                                should be inlined (all local files and packages from inlined
                                libraries)                                [boolean] [default: false]
  --disable-symlinks-following  (EXPERIMENTAL) Disables resolving of symlinks to the original path.
                                See https://github.com/timocov/dts-bundle-generator/issues/39 for
                                more information                          [boolean] [default: false]
  --config                      File path to the generator config file                      [string]
  --no-banner                   Allows remove "Generated by dts-bundle-generator" comment from the
                                output                                    [boolean] [default: false]
  --version                     Show version number                                        [boolean]

Examples:

./node_modules/.bin/dts-bundle-generator -o my.d.ts path/to/your/entry-file.ts

./node_modules/.bin/dts-bundle-generator path/to/your/entry-file.ts path/to/your/entry-file-2.ts

./node_modules/.bin/dts-bundle-generator --external-inlines=@mycompany/internal-project --external-imports=@angular/core,rxjs path/to/your/entry-file.ts

./node_modules/.bin/dts-bundle-generator --external-types=jquery path/to/your/entry-file.ts

Config file

It is unnecessary, but you can use config file for the tool. See config documentation for more information.

Why

If you have modules then you can create definitions by default using tsc, but tsc generates them for each module separately. Yeah, you can use outFile (for amd and system), but generated code looks like this:

declare module "a" {
    export class A {
    }
}
declare module "b" {
    export class B {
    }
}
declare module "entry" {
    import { B } from "b";
    export function makeB(): B;
}

but:

1. A is not used at all and most probably you do not want to export it.
2. If you bundle your code in a way when all modules are merged (like when using Webpack or Rollup) then there should be no such modules as a or b (actually entry too) in the resulting file.

Known limitations

1. All your types should have different names inside a bundle. If you have 2 interface Options {} they will be merged by TypeScript and you will get wrong definitions.

2. Don't re-export default exports as default export in entry files.

   class.ts:

   export default class MyClass {}

   index.ts:

   export { default } from './class';

   This can be simply "fixed" via importing and then exporting as default:

   index.ts:

   import MyClass from './class';
   export default MyClass;