Mattermost Types

This package contains shared type definitions used by the Mattermost web app and related projects.

It is currently a work in progress and contains internal types that will be removed in a followup release.

Usage

For technologies that support subpath exports, such as Node.js, Webpack, and Babel, you can import these types directly from individual files.

import {UserProfile} from '@mattermost/types/users';

For technologies that don't support that yet, you can add an alias in its package resolution settings to support that.

TypeScript

In the tsconfig.json, you can use compilerOptions.paths to add that alias. This also requires a compilerOptions.baseUrl if you haven't set that already.

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "baseUrl": ".",
        "paths": {
            "@mattermost/types/*": ["node_modules/@mattermost/types/lib/*"]
        }
    }
}

Jest

In your Jest config, you can use the moduleNameMapper field to adsd that alias.

{
    "moduleNameMapper": {
        "^@mattermost/types/(.*)$": "<rootDir>/node_modules/@mattermost/types/lib/$1"
    }
}

Compilation and Packaging

As a member of Mattermost with write access to our NPM organization, you can build and publish this package by running the following commands:

npm run build --workspace=packages/types
npm publish --workspace=packages/types

Make sure to increment the version number in package.json first! You can add -0, -1, etc for pre-release versions.