barrel-dts

barrel-dts is a simple command-line tool that generates TypeScript declaration files for barrels.

Usage

The following commands are supported:

• -s, --source [sourceFile]: The barrel source file (defaults to index.ts).
• -m, --module-name [moduleName]: The name of the module (defaults to myModule).
• -t, --target [targetFileName]: The name of the target file (if moduleName is set, it defaults to it: myModule.d.ts).

Example

To clarify its usage even more, let us pretend we want to generate a .d.ts file for this barrel:

export { MyFirstClass } from './myFirstClass/MyFirstClass';
export { MySecondClass } from './mySecondClass/MySecondClass';

Simply generating declarations via setting the corresponding property in the tsconfig.json file puts out a simple copy of this file and results in us having to use the following syntax to import from our barrel:

import { MyFirstClass } from 'myModule/myModule';

This happens because the TypeScript compiler does not declare a module for our barrel. barrel-dts on the other hand does declare a module and we can now simply use this for our imports:

import { MyFirstClass } from 'myModule';

Hooray!

Version History

1.0.0 - Initial Release

1.0.1 - Installation Fix

• fixed problems with installation over npm

1.0.2 - Installation Fix

• fixed problems with installation over npm