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

[Bruno Oliveira]

Thanks Stan, I'm adding Evan so he can provide his thoughts on it.

On 2019-05-10, Stan Silvert wrote:
> 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?
> >>>
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