In my ASP.NET Core 5 app, I have chosen to use TypeScript instead of JavaScript. As part of this decision, I am utilizing some JavaScript libraries in my project and need type definitions for them to compile smoothly.
To facilitate this process, I have configured NPM with devDependencies for the necessary type definitions. These dependencies are downloaded to the node_modules folder and seamlessly integrated into the TypeScript compiler.
Here is a glimpse of my NPM package.json:
{
"version": "1.0.0",
"name": "asp.net",
"private": true,
"devDependencies": {
"@types/bootstrap": "5.0.17",
"@types/jquery": "3.5.6",
"bootstrap-table": "^1.18.3",
"jquery": "3.6.0"
}
}
Additionally, here is an overview of my tsconfig.json configuration:
{
"compilerOptions": {
"noImplicitAny": true,
"noEmitOnError": true,
"removeComments": true,
"sourceMap": true,
"target": "es5",
"lib": [
"DOM",
"ES5",
"ES2015"
]
},
"include": [
"wwwroot/js/**/*.ts"
],
"exclude": [
"node_modules"
],
"compileOnSave": true
}
While this setup functions well for integrating JQuery and Bootstrap, there seems to be an issue with bootstrap-table. Despite having the correct type definitions installed, the compiler is unable to recognize bootstrapTable.
Within my project structure, I have organized the files as follows:
root
wwwroot
js
home.ts
views
home
index.cshtml // imports ~/js/home.js
node_modules // automatically maintained by NPM
@types
bootstrap
jquery
bootstrap-table
package.json
tsconfig.json
The specific error encountered while compiling home.ts is
(TS) Property 'bootstrapTable' does not exist on type 'JQuery<HTMLElement>'.I suspect that the issue may stem from how the type definitions for bootstrap-table are structured within the main library. Although I attempted to manually specify typeRoots to include it, this approach led to numerous compile errors due to mistaken module declarations.