Automatic types resolution

[Willem-Jaap]

Automatic types resolution

If you have ever worked on a project with lots of dependencies, you have certainly come across the @types/* packages.

These type definitions are meant for JavaScript modules that do not have TypeScript types.

When you have a lot of these packages, the dependencies in your package.json start to look like this:

json

{
    "dependencies": {
         "react": "^17.0.1",
         "react-dom": "^17.0.1",
         "react-helmet": "^6.1.0",
         "react-router-dom": "^5.2.0",
     },
     "devDependencies": {
        "@types/react": "^17.0.1",
        "@types/react-dom": "^17.0.0",
        "@types/react-helmet": "^6.1.0",
        "@types/react-router-dom": "^5.1.7",
     }
}

This could be resolved by the following:

{
    "pnpm": {
       "autoResolveTypes": true,
    },
    "dependencies": {
         "react": "^17.0.1",
         "react-dom": "^17.0.1",
         "react-helmet": "^6.1.0",
         "react-router-dom": "^5.2.0",
     },
}

When installing PNPM, it automatically checks against the DefinitelyTyped registry to install the correct @types packages if they exist.

I don't know if this is even remotely feasible, but I think it would make a very cool addition to PNPM's feature set.