global-typings-bundler

Bundles your TypeScript definition files, like a JS module bundler does for your source files.

WARNING: experimental/unstable, use at your own risk

Usage
Motivation
Caveats
Development
Distribution

Usage

npm install global-typings-bundler --save-dev

Example

import { writeFileSync } from "fs";
import { bundleTypings } from "global-typings-bundler";
 
const result = bundleTypings("MyReactComponent", "path/to/entry/index.d.ts", {
    "react": "React",
    "react-dom": "ReactDOM",
    "react-addons-css-transition-group": "React.addons.CSSTransitionGroup",
});
 
writeFileSync("my-global-typings.d.ts", result, "utf8");

API

`bundleTypings(globalName: string, typingsEntryPoint: string, externals?: Object): string`

globalName: The name of the desired global namespace.
typingsEntryPoint: Path to the typings file for the module's entry point.
externals: An optional object which maps external module names to their corresponding globals. For example, "react" would map to "React", "react-addons-test-utils" -> "React.addons.TestUtils", etc. If your module imports any external libraries, you must include them here or the bundling will fail.

Input

Granular external module definition files as generated with tsc --module commonjs:

my-module/
├── foo.d.ts
├── bar.d.ts
├── index.d.ts
└── someFolder/
    └── nestedModule.d.ts

// index.d.ts
export { IFoo, parseExport } from "./foo";
export { IBar } from "./bar";

// foo.d.ts
import * as ts from "typescript";
import { someGlobalVariable } from "./someFolder/nestedModule";
export interface IFoo {
    ...
}
export function parseExport(exportDecl: ts.ExportDeclaration): IFoo[] {
    ...
}

// someFolder/nestedModule.d.ts
export const someGlobalVariable: string;

Output

A flattened .d.ts file that matches the shape of the namespaces created by a JS bundler like webpack or browserify:

declare namespace __MyModule.__SomeFolder.__NestedModule {
    export const someGlobalVariable: string;
}
declare namespace __MyModule.__Foo {
    import someGlobalVariable = __MyModule.__SomeFolder.__NestedModule.someGlobalVariable;
    export interface IFoo {
        ...
    }
    export declare function parseExport(exportDecl: ts.ExportDeclaration): IFoo[];
}
declare namespace MyModule {
    export import IFoo = __MyModule.__Foo.IFoo;
    export import parseExport = __MyModule.__Foo.parseExport;
    export import IBar = __MyModule.__Bar.IBar;
}

The __ namespaces are fake and do not correspond to real values at runtime in JS.

Motivation

As we transitioned our TypeScript libraries to ES6 module syntax and our applications to use a JS module loader, we wanted to retain interoperability with older applications that did not use a module loader or bundler. This is easy to do for the JS -- you simply bundle using a tool like webpack and you're ready to use the browser-global version of the library with a package manager like Bower. However, the typings generated by the compiler are unusable in these legacy applications because of the lack of module loader (they can't have any external module imports/exports). So, we built this tool to bridge the gap. It allows you to author a TypeScript library in ES6 module syntax and distribute it as a strongly typed CommonJS module on NPM as well as a strongly typed global module on Bower.

Note that this tool is distinct from dts-bundle, which also bundles up external module definition files, but does not flatten the module structure into namespaces.

Caveats

The following structures are not currently supported and will cause the library to either throw an error or generate incorrect typings.

default exports: export default ...
default imports mixed with named imports: import foo, { bar } from ...
wildcard re-exports: export * from ...
named export statements without a from clause: export { foo, bar as baz }. (Note: export { foo, bar as baz } from ... is supported.)

Development

Quick Start:

npm run lint
npm run build

Testing

In order to test your changes:

Add/modify test cases as necessary in test/cases. Each test case is its own directory and has a file named params.json which supplies the parameters to pass when building the bundled typings file. If your code changes are supposed to affect the output of the library, ensure at least one test case is affected as well. If you're simply refactoring code, it's fine to leave the test cases as they are.
Run npm run build to build the latest version of your code.
Run npm run test to generate output for all test cases into the test/output directory.
- If the command succeeds, your code changes didn't affect the output from any test cases.
- If the command fails, your code changes have affected the output from at least one test case. Use npm run test-diff to see the differences or view the differences between test/accepted-output and test/output with your favorite editor/diff tool.
If the output in test/output is what is desired, run npm run test-accept.
When you commit your code changes, also commit the changes to test/accepted-output.

Distribution

Publishing to NPM:

npm run all
npm publish dist/

global-typings-bundler