Should I use tsd or typings?

Question

I am wondering what is the recommended practice by Angular Team? I couldn't find it anywhere in the docs, and I am wondering what are the differences between the two. Any insights are more than welcome!

Coconut

Answer 1

tsd seems to be deprecated in favor of typings and Angular is moving to typings.

I have seen it mentioned several times that tsd is deprecated

• http://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/tsd/issues/269

• http://github.com/angular/angular/issues/6887

• http://github.com/angular/universal/issues/206
• http://github.com/angular/zone.js/issues/240
• http://github.com/AngularClass/angular2-webpack-starter/issues/323

Adonic

I noticed that too but still typings is not helping in install defintions for 3rd party tools like jquery! tsd was more helpful. what do you think? – Medeah

No idea. I'm not using TS (except for Plunkers) myself - only Dart. – Overcash

Answer 2

It seems like the situation is changing again. From what I understand, Typescript 2.0 will use npm (Node Package Manager) to manage Typescript declarations for existing Javascript libraries.

The example given is that you can do:

npm install --save @types/lodash

Which will then do two things:

1. Grabs the declaration files for lodash and saves it to a directory named @types/lodash in our package's node_modules.
2. Saves that as a dependency in our package.json

For more information, please refer to this announcement from Microsoft: The Future of Declaration Files

And also this Github issue: Improve Declaration File Acquisition.

Schizophyceous

after tsd and typings, this is the way to go finally! – Maundy

Answer 3

yeah as stated in angular2's changelog from beta6 https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#200-beta6-2016-02-11

• typings are no longer included in the distribution

Kendrick

The quote from the source is actually, "Transitive typings are no longer included in the distribution." – Sarthe