Module Development in TypeScript

Jalibu

Hello developers,

some time ago I switched all my modules to TypeScript (feel free to check out MMM-Jast as a reference implementations).
Especially for more complex modules, TypeScript brings huge advantages from my point of view.
Since the MagicMirror platform doesn’t provide its own TypeDefinitions, I made them available via the DefinitelyTyped library.
For interested developers I also plan to provide some kind of TypeScript template module soon.

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├── src
│   └── backend
│       ├── Backend.ts
│       ├── BackendUtils.ts
│       └── ...
│   └── frontend
│       ├── Frontend.ts
│       ├── FrontendUtils.ts
│       └── ...
│   └── types
│       ├── ABC.ts
│       └── ...
└── templates
│       ├── main.njk
│       └── ...
└── translations
│       ├── de.json
│       ├── en.json
│       └── ...
└── MMM-XYZ.js (generated)
└── node_helper.js (generated)
└── MMM-XYZ.css
└── tsconfig.json
└── rollup.config.json
└── README.md
└── package.json

Question: Are there any other developers among you who are interested in joining my “TypeScript” initiative? A little support from another developer in maintaining the type definitions would be helpful.

strawberry 3.141

@jalibu there is a simple version of types in the main repo https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/blob/master/module-types.ts

Jalibu

@strawberry-3-141
as you say, it is a very simple and incomplete version. And you can not install them as a package or use them in your modules, except if you copy the file.
In fact, that’s the real reason I created the typings on DefinitelyTyped.
You can find the sources here and the npm module here.