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

[Stan Silvert]

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 at abstractj.org> 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
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