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• allan Posts: 64,593Questions: 1Answers: 10,683 Site admin

  June 16

  I would have expected that to work. I'll put something together to check what is happening and get back to you.

  Allan
• allan Posts: 64,593Questions: 1Answers: 10,683 Site admin

  June 16

  I've just tried this and haven't been able to recreate any Typescript errors I'm afraid. Here's what I did:

  1) Go to the Editor download page and add the private repository information to my ~/.npmrc file.

  2) Created a new npm project and install the related software:

  mkdir editor
  cd editor
  npm install -y
  npm install typescript datatables.net-react datatables.net-dt @datatables.net/editor-dt
  

  3) Create index.ts with:

  import DataTable from 'datatables.net-react';
  import DataTablesCore from 'datatables.net-dt';
  import Editor from '@datatables.net/editor-dt';
   
  DataTable.use(DataTablesCore);
  
  new Editor({
      table: '#myTable'
  });
  
  new DataTablesCore('#myTable', {
      info: false
  });
  

  I've added the two initialisations just to check the Typescript types where what I expected.

  With that file open in VS Code I'm getting no warnings or errors about types. All the type completion information etc is showing up as expected for the parameters and objects.

  So there must be something different in your project that I've missed. Are you able to walk me through similar steps to create the issue, or provide a git repo that shows the problem?

  Thanks,
  Allan
• kylecordes Posts: 2Questions: 0Answers: 0

  June 17

  Thank you, I followed your process and got up and running. I had somehow ended up with a corrupt package cache (!) Resolved by purging it.

  (Would be great if there was a published example of DT + Editor in TS with some common features in use. I realize that might be a pretty small percent of the datatables customer base, and there is never enough time to do every good idea!)
• allan Posts: 64,593Questions: 1Answers: 10,683 Site admin

  June 17

  I don't have any numbers to back it up, but I'd be surprised if Typescript use wasn't a very large fraction, perhaps the majority. I use it myself all the time and that's why I was reasonably sure what you had posted would work.

  What form would you like the published example to be? An extra download option for each of the five current download packages, or something else? Perhaps Generator could have a TS target, but then I'd need to consider the use of Vite, ESBuild, Webpack, etc as well. It has a lot of depth for what appears to be a fairly simple request .

  Allan