Re: [keycloak-dev] Typescript support for Node.js adapter

On 5/10/2019 8:15 AM, Bruno Oliveira wrote: > If you ask me, I'm not crazy about the idea of providing Typescript > definitions inside the Node.js adapter. And there's a single request > from the community about it. > > At the same time, it's hard to ignore some numbers. The weekly NPM > downloads for Typescript is almost 5 million[1] and for ts-node[2] is > almost 2 million. > > The goal of that PR is to provide only the Typescript definitions for > the Node.js adapter, so that projects using the adapter can benefit from > it. If we agree to move forward with this, I believe some automated way > to generate it, has to be provided. > > Thoughts? Yes, you should provide it.  These days, every serious javascript library is expected to have a definition file. I don't think there would be any way to automate creation of the file unless you write your code in TypeScript. > > [1] - https://www.npmjs.com/package/typescript > [2] - https://www.npmjs.com/package/ts-node > > On 2019-05-10, Stian Thorgersen wrote: >> Is Typescript commonly used in the Node.js community? From what >> I understand it is very popular with client-side js these days. >> >> On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 20:59, Bruno Oliveira <bruno(a)abstractj.org&gt; wrote: >> >>> Good morning, we have this PR opened long time ago >>> https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-nodejs-connect/pull/123/files. >>> Before review it and probably update it I would like to ask. >>> >>> Is Typescript something that we would like to support in the Node.js >>> adapter? If your answer is yes, why? >>> >>> -- >>> - abstractj >>> _______________________________________________ >>> keycloak-dev mailing list >>> keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev >>> _______________________________________________ keycloak-dev mailing list keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev