Toolkit: @actions/github cannot declare variable of type GitHub. It says it´s not exported

[brpaz]

Describe the bug

I am trying to declare a variable of the type "octokit" but I can´t get it working.

I have seen some code and also https://github.com/actions/toolkit/issues/365 which shows I could do like:

import { GitHub } from "@actions/github"

and then just declare my variable as: const octokit: GitHub

But this doesn´t work. Typescript complains the variable is not exported.

Module '"../node_modules/@actions/github/lib/github"' declares 'GitHub' locally, but it is not exported

To Reproduce

import { GitHub } from "@actions/github"

const octokit = new GitHub("mytoken");

Expected behavior
The GitHub type should be exported, so I can specify the type of my variables

Additional context

Using version 4.0.0. It works with version 2.2.0. I guess the interface changed. Still I have to be able to declare my variable with correct type.

[peaceiris]

FYI. https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-label-commenter/pull/154/commits/89276744c1570cb785db07b2be1e3c110c1b8f07

[jhuleatt]

I believe this is due to an api change. I worked around this by doing the following (which is now the recommended way in the README):

import { getOctokit } from "@actions/github";

const octokit = getOctokit("mytoken");

in other modules that might need to know the type of octokit, I do:

import type { GitHub } from "@actions/github/lib/utils";

export async function createCheck(
  octokit: InstanceType<typeof GitHub>
) {
  // ...
}

[brpaz]

Thanks. I saw the README, but I wanted to inject the Ocotkit into my service. I was missing how I could declare the type like this InstanceType<typeof GitHub>. Thanks.