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		bikitan on July 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated De... But why would any of that need to be done manually in a .d.ts file? You can just write your type definitions in ts files

austin-cheney on July 7, 2024 [–]

Types are meta data for the compiler. They are not code that is compiled to JavaScript, so I isolate my type definitions to d.ts files. That is the only reason I have d.ts files at all.

sharlos201068 on July 8, 2024 | [–]

Types are also documentation for the developers reading and editing the code.

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