Generate TypeScript definitions from source #189
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Currently our types are hand written. They differ from the jsdoc types in the source code in that a) they're missing documentation and b) the types are often inconsistent. Rather than manually sync the two it felt simpler to use
tsc
to generate the types for us from the JS source code and reduce the burden of manually keeping the types up-to-date with the source code.This PR now uses the type annotations found in the jsdoc for all of the files and generates a
./dist/types
directory. This has the benefits of:The drawbacks are mostly that it's very easy to mess up the type annotations which will then fail silently and default to
any
, which is about on par with handwriting them anyway.To mitigate this we do our best to unit test the types in the
./integrations/typescript/types.test.ts
file which creates typed instances of the main primitives and will cause tsc errors if the types become out of sync. TheAssertFalse
helper allows us to catch cases where we've accidentally messed up the@typedef
export in index.js.