Integrating ES6/TypeScript

[cplpearce]

Hello!

Our team is looking at integrating this library into a TypeScript frontend project.

We would like to begin building out a TypeScript compliant branch and just wanted to check if any of the maintainers have any comments, questions or suggestions before we begin.

We would like to keep it OS, hosted in this repo if possible!

Thanks!

[B1Dobbs]

Hi @cplpearce, how far along are you on supporting TypeScript right now?

Our team has also been using this project in more modern front-end application and we have a current implementation of generating types from the JSDoc annotations using tsd-jsdoc. This method allows for the current JavaScript to remain relatively untouched while also supporting TypeScript.

We were going to open a PR here soon with the type generation script and JSDoc annotation updates. There would also be a separate PR in DefinitelyTyped to add a new open-dis module. It would be installed like other type modules: npm install --save-dev @types/open-dis.

[jfelicianiats]

Has there been any updates on this?
@B1Dobbs Any update on PR'ing these types?

[B1Dobbs]

@jfelicianiats I've built the types and have been using them locally for a while in our own TS projects. Kind of dropped the ball on getting it in a PR. I could get it pushed next week though if it's needed!

@leif81 Is there any preference to having the types directly in this repository or published through DefinitelyTyped?

[leif81]

@B1Dobbs a PR as described earlier seems like a good approach. But am open to suggestions.

We were going to open a PR here soon with the type generation script and JSDoc annotation updates. There would also be a separate PR in DefinitelyTyped to add a new open-dis module. It would be installed like other type modules: npm install --save-dev @types/open-dis.

[jfelicianiats]

@B1Dobbs Thanks for making a PR!