Add type definitions

[JohnGrisham]

This is just an issue to track interest in type definitions for the framework.

If there is enough interest I will consider working on adding definitions as I have time. With the consent of the maintainers, this can be directly in the repo or if a separation is more desirable they can just be added to the Definitely Typed library.

https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped

Please let me know if this interests you by giving the thumbs up here.

I would also love some feedback from @mikermcneil

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[mikermcneil]

@JohnGrisham If you think you'll have the bandwidth to look after the bindings, then it'd be great to have support for Sails added externally in the DefinitivelyTyped repo. I don't use TypeScript myself for now, but since the bindings can live externally to the Sails repo, and there will be an active user of TypeScript maintaining them, I think this sounds awesome!

[JohnGrisham]

@JohnGrisham If you think you'll have the bandwidth to look after the bindings, then it'd be great to have support for Sails added externally in the DefinitivelyTyped repo. I don't use TypeScript myself for now, but since the bindings can live externally to the Sails repo, and there will be an active user of TypeScript maintaining them, I think this sounds awesome!

Thanks for the feedback! I was hoping to also get some feedback from the community but I haven't seen much of a desire to use Typescript with Sails. I may circle back to this when I have time or if interest does arise. I just ask that this issue be left up if nothing else but to track interest.

[TheAdamGalloway]

+1 for adding TypeScript definitions. I'm new to TS myself but enjoy the stability it provides to my code. I can't promise anything but I will try to contribute to any efforts you make @JohnGrisham. This could be an alright starting point (but think it predates v1.0): https://github.com/effervescentia/typed-sails

[mrtnzagustin]

+1 for this, i moved to express with typeORM + joi for some clients projects and this would be an awesome upgrade for the community to make sails more pluggable

[mrtnzagustin]

Some types i used https://gist.github.com/joeherold/cf10ee8a11e145519a7ff960b3ac96a7, credits to @joeherold

[ksaitor]

@mrtnzagustin did declare var sails: Sails.GlobalSailsApplication work for you? I'm trying to reuse the same type definitions and declaring sails globally doesn't seem to work. VSCode picks up the definitions, but Sails itself throws an error during runtime, right after start.

[xziy]

+1

[ewildee]

+1 It would be great to have Typings support for Sails!

[sayami007]

I will be starting my work to create a definition file.

[JohnGrisham]

@sayami007 I don't think I have time to help out but feel free to add me as a reviewer.

[sayami007]

@JohnGrisham Yes sure.