problems getting Typescript bindings @types/jsts to work with jsts

[Menelaos Perdikeas]

Hi,

I am developing for the browser using webpack.

I did the following to install the package and its Typescript bindings for the browser:

npm i --S jsts

npm i --D @types/jsts

After that, I can do:

import OL3Parser from 'jsts/org/locationtech/jts/io/OL3Parser';

... but I get a Typescript type-checking error:

TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'jsts/org/locationtech/jts/io/OL3Parser'. '/home/some/path/node_modules/jsts/org/locationtech/jts/io/OL3Parser.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.

Any ideas?

[Menelaos Perdikeas]

In the end I managed to get it to work with:

    const jsts = require('jsts');

    const parser: jsts.io.OL3Parser = new jsts.io.OL3Parser();

But I don't understand why and whether this is the suggested / idiomatic way.

Full story is here:

    https://stackoverflow.com/q/66154350/274677