On: TypeScript NPM Packages Done Right

[skybrian]

I'm wondering if there's a tool that converts TypeScript into JavaScript that has JsDoc type annotations and preserves API docs? Then you wouldn't need to include anything else. Let the application minify if they choose.

[Zacru → skybrian]

https://github.com/angular/tsickle kind of does that. Though it's kind of deprecated and more specifically aimed at the Closure Compiler.

[c-hendricks → skybrian]

Does the typescript language server even look at jsdoc comments in libraries?

[rasso → c-hendricks]

Yes it does

[meiraleal → skybrian]

GPT 4 is great at converting TypeScript to JSDoc

[skybrian → meiraleal]

As a one-time conversion, maybe, but it would be expensive and unreliable as part of a toolchain.