How do I add a TypeScript definitely typed definition in ASP.NET 5?

Question

I'm trying to install TypeScript definition files from DefinitelyTyped within a ASP.NET v5 web project in Visual Studio 2015 RC? NuGet packages don't seem to work anymore and TSD hasn't been updated in awhile and I haven't seen a lot of good documentation for it when using it within VS.

What ways are still working for the VS 2015 RC?

Butterfly

Answer 1

TSD is deprecated. The generally preferred alternative is Typings.

From docs:

# Install Typings CLI utility.
npm install typings --global

# Search for definitions.
typings search tape

# Find an available definition (by name).
typings search --name react

# If you use the package as a module:
# Install non-ambient typings (default from "npm" registry, configurable through defaultSource in .typingsrc)
typings install debug --save

# If you use the package through script tag, or
# it is part of the environment, or
# the non-ambient typings is not yet available:
typings install dt~mocha --global --save

# Install typings from particular registry
typings install env~atom --global --save
typings install npm~bluebird --save

# Use typings/index.d.ts (in tsconfig.json or as a /// reference).
cat typings/index.d.ts

Agreement

Since tsc 2 typings are deprecated too if i'm right, just pull in the "@type/modulname" package with npm – Infantry

@Infantry Is it? Who says so? – Agreement

Here: blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2016/06/15/… – Infantry

Answer 2

I have been using TSD from NPM. It is working fine with my MVC 6 project and should definitely be the most up to date source of definitions.

This should be all you need to get going:

npm install tsd --save-dev
tsd install jquery --save

Samsun

Thanks. It look me awhile to figure out how to get npm properly installed as you can't just use it. Also git has to be locally installed as well with command-line mode. I was hoping of finding a way to do it code-first instead of command-line first, but the commit codes for tsd.json don't seem that easy to use compared to using tsd install. – Butterfly