Automatically search for types before npm install of a package

[cryptiklemur]

This may already be possible with yarn, but it would be nice to be able to have typesync search for type packages to install before installing a requested package, so they all get installed at the same time.

Would seem that npm/cli#481 is required for this on npm.

https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts#hook-scripts might also work?

[jeffijoe]

That sounds like something you could do with a bash script and without typesync by doing npm install @types/package; npm install package.

[cryptiklemur]

That’s not what I want. Problems with that not-withstanding, I don’t want to use another script. I want typesync to integrate with npm/yarn

[jeffijoe]

Closing as out of scope. Unix philosophy of composition applies here.

[cryptiklemur]

Thats a bummer. One of the flaws of Unix, in general, is the lack of focus on UX/DX. Stuff like "composition" requirement philosophies cause that.

[karlhorky]

You could set something pretty similar up for yourself with postinstall, as I mentioned in #63

[cryptiklemur]

postinstall still requires running npm i or yarn again. which ends up running this again. Its a pretty bad UX

[karlhorky]

Ahh, I guess you mean the following:

• yarn add styled-components
• postinstall automatically runs typesync, which adds @types/styled-components to the package.json
• then yarn needs to be run again, in order to install them again

That makes sense, for sure!

I suppose one workaround for now would be to do the postinstall like this: typesync && yarn. Not ideal (two install cycles), but it works.

Like you mention, a preinstall hook or similar would be much better!

[karlhorky]

I'll add this to the other issue too.