4.1.2 has mis-configured Typescript definition

Chalks types are not next to the main entrypoint file and thus TSC fails to compile them.

$ tsc
src/index.ts(3,19): error TS2307: Cannot find module 'chalk' or its corresponding type declarations.

https://codesandbox.io/s/ts-http-chalk-bug-lq2qz?file=/src/index.ts https://unpkg.com/browse/chalk@4.1.2/package.json

Workarounds from bad to worse

• Run this after the npm install hook, i.e. the install or prepare script:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
sed -i '8s/"source",/"\.\/source\/index\.js",\n"types": "\.\/index\.d\.ts",/' node_modules/chalk/package.json

• Maybe: Manually reference chalk’s types in an ambient declaration…
  • I can’t get this to work in practice with a triple-slash directive
• Ambient type declare module 'chalk'. Treats chalk as if it has no types.
• move the node_modules/chalk/index.d.ts to node_modules/chalk/source/
• modify node_modules/chalk/package.json with "types": "index.d.ts"

[Qix-]

This is a bug with v4 though, it’s definitely something we should address prior to v5. Maybe we just do a patchfix branch and consider v4 frozen?

[Qix-]

I see something has changed since that release. We already do what you’re asking - it just hasn’t been published yet.

@sindresorhus are we safe to cut a release?