The Cheerio interface is not exported in the type definitions

[sk-pub]

See https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio/blob/v1.0.0/types/index.d.ts
The interface Cheerio is declared but not exported. It leads to TS compilation errors in projects, that need it. E.G. vuejs/vue-test-utils#1737

[fb55]

Feel free to open a PR to add this!

[fb55]

Looking at your link, it seems like the issue is that we export a value type. If all that's needed is a typeof, the additional export does not really seem worth it.

[lynxtaa]

Looking at your link, it seems like the issue is that we export a value type. If all that's needed is a typeof, the additional export does not really seem worth it.

Consider this code when using cheerio@1.0.0-rc.3:

function getTrimmedText(el: cheerio.Cheerio): string {
  return el.text().trim()
}

const $ = cheerio.load(html)
const trimmedText = getTrimmedText($('#text'))

How can I type an argument for a function getTrimmedText in cheerio@1.0.0-rc.5? typeof cheerio will return cheerio.CheerioAPI which is not the same as cheerio.Cheerio.

I think this issue should be reopened.

[lynxtaa]

After further investigation I think declaring type Cheerio = ReturnType<typeof cheerio> works. But it's not obvious in comparison with @types/cheerio