How to use typescript in gluegun cli, but still ship it for running on node?

[danludwig]

Is the only way to do it to have a build process that compiles the ts to js and then ships the js as the cli root (when someone does a npm i -g of the cli)? I can't get past the "unexpected token" errors when importing and exporting interfaces.

[jamonholmgren]

Hey @danludwig ! We have a build process built-in to the generated Gluegun CLI that you can run with yarn build. If you want it to generate TS types, add this to your tsconfig.json:

  "compilerOptions": {
    "declaration": true,
    "declarationDir": "build/types",

and this to your package.json:

  "types": "build/types/types.d.ts",

Then add a src/types.ts file that you export all your public-facing types from.

I may add this to our generated TypeScript CLI, actually.

[yordis]

I think this could be related to #401

[jamonholmgren]

Tracking the idea of generating public types automatically in #611.