Hey, everybody! I’d like to propose/discuss the idea of redistributing Typescript definitions along with core plugins, so that users who write their apps in Typescript would get the typings in their projects without additional mess with 'tsd'/'typings' (these all are the package managers for typescript declarations) or manual installation from '@types' NPM org.
As mentioned above, our main goal - to reduce the number of additional actions needed to either add the plugin to Typescript project or get the types information and intellisense for JavaScript projects. Also, this would reduce the number of network calls to other services (typings registry, NPM registry) which are known as common points of denial (per telemetry data). The changes are pretty minimal and include adding a d.ts file with type definitions (taken from DefinitelyTyped[1]) and 'types' entry to package.json according to Typescript convention [2]. The sample implementation for camera plugin is here: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/compare/master...vladimir-kotikov:add-typings Does anyone have any considerations/objections about this proposal? - [1] https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/cordova-plugin-camera/index.d.ts [2] http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/declaration-files/publishing.html - Best regards, Vladimir - Best regards, Vladimir
