FYI: existing type definitions

A while ago I contributed the @types/arcgis-rest-api type definitions to the DefinitelyTyped repository. If they meet your needs you could use these instead of creating them from scratch. (Available via NPM here)

I have another version with additional types, but that hasn’t been contributed yet. I’ve attached that version below, in case you want to use it. arcgis-rest-api.d.ts.zip

(The only reason that all of the types are in a single index.d.ts file is simply because that’s the way the DefinitelyTyped project expects them to be.)

[tomwayson]

OK, wish I had done a quick google search on this before my previous comment. Turns out, If your package is written in TypeScript then you should publish the types w/ your package, so I’m going to PR @JeffJacobson’s types to arcgis-rest-common-types - at the very least the ones I’ll need for the new package for managing features. Also I talked IRL w/ @jgravois and he prefer’s the I prefix for interfaces, so I’ll add that to the ones I bring over.

@JeffJacobson if we were to include all of your types (not just the ones we need), would that be something you’d be willing to use in your projects instead of @types/arcgis-rest-api, even if their prefixed w/ I? I think it’d be great if we could just maintain one package going forward. Hopefully it would be easier for you to publish here than over at DefinitelyTyped. Ultimately I’d like to deprecate the former and update it’s dependents.

[jgravois]

very cool! this is really similar to the arcgis-rest-common-types package we recently started stubbing out.

we could certainly link out and promote your additional typings, but my first instinct is that it’d be good to combine forces. would you be interested in that?