I am wondering what is the recommended practice by Angular Team? I couldn't find it anywhere in the docs, and I am wondering what are the differences between the two. Any insights are more than welcome!
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It seems like the situation is changing again. From what I understand, Typescript 2.0 will use npm (Node Package Manager) to manage Typescript declarations for existing Javascript libraries.
The example given is that you can do:
npm install --save @types/lodash
Which will then do two things:
- Grabs the declaration files for lodash and saves it to a directory named @types/lodash in our package's node_modules.
- Saves that as a dependency in our package.json
For more information, please refer to this announcement from Microsoft: The Future of Declaration Files
And also this Github issue: Improve Declaration File Acquisition.
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1after tsd and typings, this is the way to go finally! – Mobiletainment Aug 28 '16 at 21:24
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tsd seems to be deprecated in favor of typings and Angular is moving to typings.
I have seen it mentioned several times that tsd is deprecated
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I noticed that too but still `typings` is not helping in install defintions for 3rd party tools like jquery! `tsd` was more helpful. what do you think? – Khaled Al-Ansari Jun 16 '16 at 09:06
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No idea. I'm not using TS (except for Plunkers) myself - only Dart. – Günter Zöchbauer Jun 16 '16 at 09:11
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yeah as stated in angular2's changelog from beta6 https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#200-beta6-2016-02-11
- typings are no longer included in the distribution
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4The quote from the source is actually, "**Transitive** typings are no longer included in the distribution." – rinogo May 05 '16 at 21:51