Writing npm modules in TypeScript

Question

I am working on my first npm module. I briefly worked with TypeScript before and a big problem was that for many modules there were no definition files available. So I thoug

Answer 1

You can use autodts to handle distributing and using .d.ts files from npm also without support from the Atom IDE.

autodts generate will bundle all your own .d.ts files together for publishing on npm, and autodts link handles references to other installed packages, which may not always be directly under node_modules in a larger project split into several subpackages.

Both commands read their settings from package.json and tsconfig.json in "convention over configuration" style.

There's another answer on stackoverflow and a blog post with more details.