chrome-types maintenance

[Milan Konir]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can provide what's the status of https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-types

Looks like no one from Google actively maintains it, there's a bunch of stale issues / PRs.

[Simeon Vincent]

Short answer is it's a core part of our infrastructure for generating the API docs on developer.chrome.com, but it is not actively being developed. That said, new type defnintions are automatically generated and published to NPM as necessary, so it just kinda keeps on rolling.

Simeon - @dotproto

Chrome Extensions DevRel 

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 12:41 AM 'Milan Konir' via Chromium Extensions <chromium-...@chromium.org> wrote:

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can provide what's the status of https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-types

Looks like no one from Google actively maintains it, there's a bunch of stale issues / PRs.

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[wOxxOm]

It really needs maintenance though as can be seen in the PRs and issues there.

[Milan Konir]

Yeah, it would be really nice if this got a little bit of attention.

We have recently switched from the community `@types/chrome` to `chrome-types` for a couple of reason:

- The types are more precise than the community ones

- It contains all MV3 promise APIs

- The possibility to switch to MV3 only typings once we finish migration to help us tie up any loose ends compile time

The only outstanding issue we have is this https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-types/pull/38, without it the removeListener signature is wrong for some events.
We are now fixing the problem via patch-package to avoid casting, but it would be nice to have it eventually merged.