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Using external library which contains typing
See original GitHub issueI’ve been trying to use reflect-metadata but i’m unable to get compiled with ADVANCED compilation
tscc.spec.json
"external": {
"reflect-metadata": "Reflect"
}`
main.ts
import "reflect-metadata";
I see externs generated for the package but no source code generated.
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Well, a good virtue of every bug report is to provide an expected behavior and an actual behavior you are observing. It seems that you don’t understand what
externaldoes.@theseanl The library should add functions the Reflect global. Reflect.defineMetadata is not a native function. It will be added the library and that’s what i don’t see.
It’s more like adding extra functions to Reflect by they aren’t there 😃. If webpack example will help i can create one