How I fixed some trouble importing types in .d.ts files
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I had some trouble making something work in my Astro site.
I used Astro locals and I had to type a variable I shared using locals.
So I went and added that to the src/env.d.ts
, as the docs say.
But my types weren’t picked up.
My code looked like this:
/// <reference types="astro/client" />
import { sometype } from 'somelib'
declare namespace App {
interface Locals {
somevariable: sometype
}
}
What I discovered thanks to this SO answer is, we can’t do imports like this in .d.ts
files.
So I imported the type in another file, and then I imported the type from that file, like this:
typesforenvdts.ts
import { sometype } from 'somelib'
export { sometype }
env.d.ts
/// <reference types="astro/client" />
declare namespace App {
interface Locals {
somevariable: import('./typesforenvdts').sometype
}
}
Don’t ask me why, but now it works.
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