Remote declaration file

Search Terms

• Remote Reference
• Remote Declaration
• Declaration URL

Suggestion

Being able to reference .d.ts files from a remote location

Use Cases

Reference .d.ts files which can match with import “http://example.com/Component1”

Examples

/// <referance path="http://example.com/Definitions/Component1" />
import "http://example.com/Component1"

Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn’t be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn’t change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn’t a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript’s Design Goals.

[zheeeng]

I made a solution for it:

1. Install the types file: yarn add -D @types/Component1
2. At the project folder, create a declaration file modules.d.ts with content:

module 'http://example.com/Component1' {
  import content = require('Component1');

  export = content
}

1. enjoy

import everything from 'http://example.com/Component1'

We have to have a local declaration for supporting intelligence

[naivefun]

Module Federation could be a great scenario?