Is the a TypeScript type definition available?

Something on the order of "@types/pdf-lib".

If not, as embarrassed as I am to ask, how can I get VS Code to recognize the types in this excellent library?

[zackdotcomputer]

OK having seen the conversation in #484 as well, I tried downgrading to the [deprecated] deno VSCode extension and it still did not work for me. I was still seeing the PDFDocument.load function have the type signature PDFDocument.load(pdf: any, options: any): any.

At this point, I was frustrated because I could see from the npm download that it should be working, so I spent too much time digging into this this morning.

Finally, I found a little note at the bottom of this page in Skypack’s (formerly Pika) documentation that you have to add ?dts at the end of a skypack/pika import to get the TS definitions for deno sent alongside the code. Adding that to the import solved the issue even with the latest, official plugin.

TDLR; import { PDFDocument } from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/pdf-lib@^1.11.1?dts'; works

Opened PR #621 to update Pika to Skypack, update the version to latest, and add the ?dts flag for typing in the README to save future devs having to find this thread.

[Hopding]

Hello @reselbob!

The TypeScript types are included in the pdf-lib NPM package. You do not need to install anything additional to get them. VSCode should just pick them up. If it’s not, the only cause I can think of is that you have plugins or configurations preventing it from doing so (e.g. the Deno plugin might cause this - haven’t tested it myself though).