Is there any plans to generate typescript definition files?
andreabreu-me
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Not yet. Are you aware of any typescript protobuf implementation?
wenbozhu
on 12 Jan 2017
This is needed for my team to adopt this. It has been on my long todo list. My plan was to see what it would take to wrap the NodeJS grpc support with TypeScript and then tackle grpc-web. I was assuming that .t.ds files could be generated for use on top of the existing JavaScript generated code.
ctaggart
on 12 Jan 2017
It's not as nice as direct typescript but if you're looking for something that works today we're doing protobuf (grpc-gateway annotated) -> swagger -> typescript fetch client. You'll obviously have to run grpc-gateway and are can't use streaming but IMO still much better than writing boilerplate endpoint code.
mackross
on 23 Feb 2017
Sorry for spelling etc on mobile
mackross
on 23 Feb 2017
We are looking into this right now, with Michal etc from improbable.io. Will post our plan here soon.
wenbozhu
on 24 Feb 2017
Magnificent if this happens.
A while back I looked at the protoc javascript generator code to see how things are done but it got a bit lonely.
Would love to be in the loop if at all possible.
quiasmo
on 24 Feb 2017
@quiasmo
The plan for the typescript support is:
- for messages: build a
protoc-gen-tsthat will code-generate TS definitions for theprotoc --js-out=compiled classes - for services: build the
protoc-gen-tswhich will build typed interfaces for remote calls. This unfortunately will differ from the nodejs APIs since typescript and EventEmitters don't gel well.
We currently are working on rewriting a prototype that we built internally (and is tied to our stack) and making it into proper stand-alone open source projects. Stay tuned.
mwitkow
on 3 Mar 2017
Just gotta throw this in here:
the TS definitions will make dart much, much easier. And I'm a big fan of dart.
faddat
on 23 Mar 2017
Right, so the ts-protoc-gen plugin is out: https://github.com/improbable-eng/ts-protoc-gen
It currently produces ts.d files for official protobuf/js (i.e. js_out) objects. We're currently in the process of open sourcing our TS interfaces for remote calls. Stay tuned :)
mwitkow
on 30 Mar 2017
@mwitkow any updates on this so far?
n0mer
on 27 Mar 2018
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Right, so the
ts-protoc-genplugin is out: https://github.com/improbable-eng/ts-protoc-genIt currently produces
ts.dfiles for officialprotobuf/js(i.e.js_out) objects. We're currently in the process of open sourcing our TS interfaces for remote calls. Stay tuned :)