Consider adding a TypeScript definitions file

I’m using https://github.com/mgechev/angular2-seed for my angular2 app and I want to include wordpress-rest-api in a component file (typescript) but it’s not working.

import * as WP from 'wordpress-rest-api/wp'; gave the error can't find module

I also tried require( 'wordpress-rest-api/wp' ) gave the error Unhandled rejection Error: Error on fetch for node.extend.js

export class AppCmp {
  constructor(){
    var WP = require( 'wordpress-rest-api/wp' );
    var wp = new WP({ endpoint: 'http://localhost/murhaf/wp-json' });

    wp.posts().then(function(data){
        console.log(data);
      }).catch(function( err ) {
        console.log(err);
    });
}

Thanks.

[johnbillion]

I recently created a package that provides TypeScript definitions for the JSON representation of WordPress core PHP objects (WP_Error, WP_Post, and WP_User for now): https://github.com/johnbillion/wp-types . I’d like to extend this to include the same for core objects in REST API responses, so if anyone’s interested in getting involved I’d appreciate it!

[thefrosty]

These can be used to put a base for all types, then extend and maintain the types. https://github.com/Microsoft/dts-gen https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/

⇒  dts-gen -m wpapi -d wpapi     
⇒  ls types/wpapi 
index.d.ts  tsconfig.json  tslint.json  wpapi-tests.ts

I came across this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/wpapi