Typescript namespaces to be considered?

After some initial bickering that Typescript support does not include this and that I’ve decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, I’ve stumbled upon a big obstacle.

I am using graphql-code-generator package to generate strong types for my GraphQL queries. In the essence, it generates types like this.

export namespace GLogoutWidget {
  export type Variables = {
    id: string
  }

  export type Query = {
    __typename?: 'Query'
    user: User
  }

  export type User = {
    __typename?: 'User'
    id: string
    firstName?: string | null
    lastName?: string | null
  }
}

Usage of namespaces in this is extremely helpful as it clearly separates types for each query/mutation. Compared to apollo-codegen which outputs extremely long and annoying names for types, this is a clear win.

I would like to know if namespace support is such a huge technical problem that it cannot be included. I mean when bundling the app it should be mostly about stripping type information and let the TypeScript worry about type checking. I am kinda lost why such a decision has been made to have a separate TypeScript parser that’s limited like this.

/cc @Timer

[danielkcz]

@Timer As it was said a linked babel issue, I wasn’t able to find any information about why are namespaces legacy. Later in that discussion, it’s revealed that it’s more of a technical issue than a problem of being deprecated. I can live what that, but let’s not spread the false accusations here 😃

@brunolemos Thanks for the tip, but I’ve already switched back to TS fork and don’t want to spend time on this anymore. It’s kinda a shame. In a sense, I was looking into being able to tap into Babel world while using TypeScript without extra hassle, but this is too much blocker for me.

[arackaf]

namespace are not supported on @babel/preset-typescript

Seems like that should just about settle this issue. Either convince the Babel folks to support this, or shoot me a PR over at customize-cra adding the ts-loader, and removing the current Babel solution.