How can I import library in a typescript file?

[SaeedZhiany]

Is it possible to explain how can I use this library in a typescript based project? It seems that @types is not defind for this project, because npm install @types/rn-fetch-blob does not work. also I don't know how can I use the types.js to import types.

currently I get this IDE error:

TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'rn-fetch-blob'. 'C:/Users/SAEED/WebstormProjects/reactNative/node_modules/rn-fetch-blob/index.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.   Try npm install @types/rn-fetch-blob if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing declare module 'rn-fetch-blob';`

[nomoreboredom]

You can just silence that rule, the plugin you are using for linting should have some settings on your IDE

[SaeedZhiany]

@nomoreboredom
when silence the rule, I just ignore the problem, am I right?
I don't want to do this. I want to use typescript advantages.

[JensDebergh]

@SaeedZhiany I'm experiencing the same problem.

The reason why npm install @types/rn-fetch-blob does not work is because it hasn't been made yet.

There was a typescript definition file available for react-native-fetch-blob but not for the fork rn-fetch-blob.

I'm afraid we will have to create the typescript defintion file ourselves.

[Traviskn]

Yeah sorry I don't know anything about typescript, so adding typescript definitions is something we will need someone with a better understanding of typescript to submit a PR for

[reilem]

PR made for this #184

[aouaki]

Hey @reilem, thanks for the PR! However, I still receive the error :

npm ERR! 404 Not Found: @types/rn-fetch-blob@latest

after doing

npm install @types/rn-fetch-blob --dev

So it seems the .d.ts file was not recognized by npm ? I'm not an expert on type files so feel free to correct me if I'm doing something wrong.

[vreality64]

@Traviskn
It's been over a month since PR (#184) was merged. I think it would be great if new release published! When do you plan on releasing it?

[jdgray]

@Traviskn I manually added the index.d.ts for now because the file is in master, but for some reason npm is not pulling it down.

[vreality64]

@jdgray
The Latest release version is 0.10.13 currently which doesn't have index.d.ts. That's the reason file not exist 😃