Usage in Workbench

[sonnyp]

Hello,

Workbench author here.

We are currently using gi-types for our (currently) experimental TypeScript support.

Workbench like all Flatpak apps is tied to a specific runtime version. Is there a way to get ts-for-gir types for a specific sdk version? Such as gnome//51

If not, do you recommend me to build types using ts-for-gir at build time ?

Thank you

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Hi @sonnyp,
thanks for asking, good to see Workbench looking at this :)

Yes, atm I’d recommend you generate the types on build time., for a specific Flatpak SDK, it might look something like this:

ts-for-gir generate Gtk-4.0 Adw-1 -o ./@types -g "$(flatpak info --show-location org.gnome.Sdk//50)/files/share/gir-1.0"

In practice, however, I haven’t actually had any problems so far simply using the very latest types versions that I regularly publish on npm, even if the on runtime used versions differ.

But something like a meta-package for the SDKs on npm would actually be quite handy anyway. I’ll have a think about whether that’s feasible 👍