webr type declaration file issue

[WillemSleegers]

I get the following warning in VS Code:

Could not find a declaration file for module 'webr'. '/Users/willem/GitHub/distributions-
sampler/node_modules/webr/dist/webr.mjs' implicitly has an 'any' type.
 
There are types at 
'/Users/willem/GitHub/distributions-sampler/node_modules/webr/dist/webR/webr-main.d.ts', 
but this result could not be resolved when respecting package.json "exports". 
The 'webr' library may need to update its package.json or typings.

Should the package.json file be updated?

[georgestagg]

Thanks for reporting this, it does look like our package.json needs some work. See also, #250.

[derrickstaten]

I'd love to be able to use this in my own typescript project as well :) I've manually updated the package.json file to:

  "types": "dist/webR/webr-main.d.ts",
  "exports": {
    ".": {
      "node": "./dist/webr.cjs",
      "default": "./dist/webr.mjs",
      "types": "./dist/webR/webr-main.d.ts"
    },

This seems to resolve the issue. This is a temporary solution on my end as I'll have to keep manually patching the package.json file every time it gets reset to the distributed version.

[derrickstaten]

Perhaps https://github.com/georgestagg/webr-nextjs-example/blob/main/app/page.tsx#L12-L14 is another workaround for people struggling with this, which doesn't require a change to package.json.

[georgestagg]

Feel free to open a PR with the changes to package.json for your environment. If everything continues to work on my end, I'd be happy to merge the required changes.

[derrickstaten]

I'm not confident that this is the solution yet. Once I am, I will open a PR.

[derrickstaten]

I've opened https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/pull/404, as it resolves warnings in a personal project