Separating types from the core

[olivermrbl]

What

Leverage our OAS to generate types and ship them separately from the core

Motivation

Main motivation: Manually maintaining API clients is time-consuming and error-prone. Time that could be spent on more valuable efforts

Secondary motivation: Reduce direct imports from Medusa core package in clients and apps. These direct imports sometimes have side effects, likes pulling unnecessary dependencies into clients and apps.

[ltran1612]

I'm new to medusa so I'm sorry if it's a dumb question, but which package should I install instead of "@medusajs/medusa" just for the types?
Thanks!

[pevey]

This would be awesome. This is the primary thing that scared me away from using medusa-js in my storefront app. The number of dependencies it would have introduced was overwhelming to me.

[adamlamaa]

I will echo everybody above me, in that I am also looking for what package to install to avoid installing the full @medusajs/medusa package in my front end where I just need type definitions.

[adamlamaa]

@olivermrbl Thank you.

I was able to replace medusajs/medusa with @medusajs/client-types

Run: 'yarn add --dev @medusajs/client-types' to install.

[edardev]

Why the nextjs-starter-medusa still use the @medusajs/medusa-js? I am confused in this one..

[davidparys]

How did you manage to do that?

Cannot find module '@medusa/client-types' or its corresponding type declarations.ts(2307)

I absolutely have no idea how to import these anywhere.

[imash96]

if you are using npm "npm i -D @medusajs/client-types"

There is no use of @medusajs/client-types becuase it is not compatible with "medusajs/medusa-js". All the types are mismatch and if you are using "@medusajs/medusa-js" in your storefront you have have to use @medusajs/medusa for types. @olivermrbl correct me if i am wrong.

[davidparys]

Lovely! I was confused because medusajs/medusa-js has @medusajs/medusa and I somehow could not import it. Installing @medusajs/medusa solved it (though feels a bit unnecessary but whatever!)

Thanks!