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@typescript/ata
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A dependency for downloading *.d.ts
files corresponding to a Node.js source file. Relies on API's provided by jsdelivr.
// Create the function for running ATA with a series of callbacks
const ata = setupTypeAcquisition({
projectName: "My ATA Project",
typescript: ts,
logger: console,
delegate: {
receivedFile: (code: string, path: string) => {
// Add code to your runtime at the path...
},
started: () => {
console.log("ATA start")
},
progress: (downloaded: number, total: number) => {
console.log(`Got ${downloaded} out of ${total}`)
},
finished: vfs => {
console.log("ATA done", vfs)
},
},
})
// Run that function with the new sourcefile
ata(`import danger from "danger"`)
You can call ata
when it is convenient to you, it will not grab the same dependencies twice. The callbacks for started
and finished
are only triggered when some work is going to happen, so you can use those for UI elements show/hide. progress
is triggered every 5 downloads.
At a high level, for this input code:
import danger from "danger"
The library will
.d.ts
files to download in the dep, then it triggers started
*.d.ts
files for "danger" from the npm module "danger".d.ts
and look at these modules from usage:
"node-fetch"
- it sees that "node-fetch" has no .d.ts
files and gets them from "@types/node-fetch""commander"
- it sees that command ships its own types"@octokit/rest"
- it sees that octokit/rest ships its own types"gitlab"
- it also seesfinished
with a Map of the vfs
if you prefer to set them in bulk.Users can give a specific npm version or tag to work from instead of the default "latest":
import { xy } from "xyz" // types: beta
If this isn't something you want, I'm not against a flag to disable it.
FAQs
A dependency for downloading `*.d.ts` files corresponding to a Node.js source file. Relies on API's provided by [jsdelivr](https://www.jsdelivr.com).
We found that @typescript/ata demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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