RxJS5 - additional operators & TS typings.

[zachgrayio]

I've been struggling for awhile with getting the typescript compiler to play nice with operators imported like so: import 'rxjs/add/operator/distinct' etc. I've tried importing Rx.Kitchensink and declaring observables via Rx.Observable, and every other suggestion I've come across on the issue trackers with no luck.

I thought maybe it was just a typings issue, but when trying to install rxjs typings, I noticed that the command typings install rxjs-symbol-typings 404s... But honestly I'm not even sure if this is even relevant.

Any thoughts?

[kwonoj]

just fyi,

typings install rxjs-symbol-typings isn't required any more from b.6, actually b.5 tried to introduce it but has dropped it. I believe any problem would not be related with those specific typings if you're using b.6 of RxJS.

[zachgrayio]

@kwonoj cool, I'll cross that off the list

[zachgrayio]

Here's an example - i just forked the repo and followed the most common, basic instructions to import additional operators, with no other changes. Maybe this is a bit too naive, but I thought it was a good starting point: zachgrayio@aa40285

[kwonoj]

I have updated here ReactiveX/rxjs#1560 (comment) for this issue, basically it requires latest version of rxjs package instead of b.2. ng2 tracks to bump up rxjs in angular/angular#8047.

[zachgrayio]

Thanks to @kwonoj for the fix.

For anyone who ends up here, this is the commit that fixed my operator woes: zachgrayio@cdd825c

If you run into the peer dependency issue due to being ahead of the peerdependency curve, you can install npm3 with sudo npm i -g npm@3 and then npm i will succeed due to it's new dependency resolution model.