Rxjs: Where is the @types/rx library located/named?

[ORESoftware]

I know there must be TypeScript typings for this project

prior to this I installed using
npm install rxjs

but now I just want to install the typings, not the whole library.

But I cannot find the typings library name.

[felixfbecker]

The typings are bundled in the rxjs package.

[kwonoj]

closing as it's answered.

[ORESoftware]

I think it might be nice to have a @types/rxjs package, in the offchance someone just wants the types?

[felixfbecker]

If you just want the types (I can't imagine why you would want that) you can just install the full package and only use the types. It would be a nightmare of maintenance to publish types _also_ to DT.

[ORESoftware]

Can't you just publish a git-subtree or git-submodule to @types/rxjs?

[felixfbecker]

DT does not support git submodules. What is your use case? What's the problem with the main package?

[ORESoftware]

This is the problem :)

I think people in the NPM community could do a lot of good to the community, by using 1 d.ts file, instead of 30 .ts files in a project, and so on and so forth.

Another reason I ask - I am wondering how I can publish this project to @types/suman

In the suman-types project, I basically want to publish the contents of the dts folder, to @types/suman. Any advice would be well-received.

[felixfbecker]

My question was more, why would you need the types but not the actual implementation?

[ORESoftware]

Yes I will try to answer your question - I have a project which uses RxJS5 _types_ for testing, but does not need the library itself. That's because I support Observables, but I don't use Observables in the codebase, if that makes sense. I just need to know type signatures, but I don't need to use the library.

for example:

https://github.com/sumanjs/suman/blob/master/lib/test-suite-helpers/handle-promise-generator.ts#L28

I have rxjs5 installed as a devDependency => "rxjs": "^5.0.3", but if I can just get the types, I would rather install that, to reduce the size of the node_modules footprint.

[abdulkareemnalband]

I also need just type definitions to write some auto imported interfaces
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47032606/typescript-d-ts-file-import-rxjs-type-definitions-only

[valeriob]

how can i use types without a module system ?

[ORESoftware]

@valeriob what do you mean? You can import types (.d.ts) files using node.js.

[valeriob]

No, i mean just link a rx.js on the page and you are good to go, without any compiler, boundler etc..

[ORESoftware]

@valeriob types are for buildtime, not runtime, so I don't think you are asking the right question, if you know what I mean. TypeScript types are "erased" when TS code is transpiled to JS code, it's called type-erasure.

[valeriob]

Yes ofc they are,
but if you use typescript with namespaces instead of modules types have to be exported as namespace
https://github.com/zspitz/TypeScript-Handbook/blob/release-2.0/pages/Modules.md#umd-modules

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