def file for object export and types

Question

Alright, so we have a Node module string-similarity who exports two functions like this (see: https://github.com/aceakash/string-similarity/blob/master/compare-

Answer 1

It looks like the export { ... } line is limiting the exports. (I was unaware that it is possible to do that in a declare module block!) If I delete that line, then by default everything is exported and I'm able to access the types.

Answer 2

To access your methods under a common parent (e.g. similarity), you need to import them under the similarity alias:

import * as similarity from "string-similarity"; 

similarity.compareTwoStrings("potato", "tomato");