Hide private classes

[wangyan-9067]

Is there any way to hide private classes? I would like dts-generator only generate declarations based on index.ts exports, and I don't want my users to see private classes.

[dylans]

Not that I'm aware of, but it would be a welcomed improvement.

[manwithafox]

Do you mean some kind of "tree shaking"? In terms of exported types, only the exported types of the given input files, plus all recursively reachable types from those top-level types should be included in output. This is different from considering all exported types from all (recursively) imported modules.

That would be a really great feature! I bundle my package (with esbuild) and have a facade file which exports only those types needed for external users - the public api. Everything else is not reachable anyway via the bundle. The d.ts file should reflect this.

[manwithafox]

Set up a demo repo which shows the issue: https://github.com/manwithafox/demo-dts-facade

1. [severe] generated d.ts does NOT contain module address.ts: https://github.com/manwithafox/demo-dts-facade/blob/96a226fa41e306c2f5f319ef446b3817b116cae6/foo.d.ts#L2
2. [above feature request]
   • generated d.ts contains class B https://github.com/manwithafox/demo-dts-facade/blob/96a226fa41e306c2f5f319ef446b3817b116cae6/foo.d.ts#L8-L10 even it is not reachable via facade.ts
   • private field age should be excluded: https://github.com/manwithafox/demo-dts-facade/blob/96a226fa41e306c2f5f319ef446b3817b116cae6/foo.d.ts#L6