Does anyone use the npm package

@hitc/netsuite-types - npm

for writing Suitescript in Typescript? If yes does anyone know how to import custom libraries or utility files with it. (Please leave out all your hateful responses to Typescript and only respond to the question 😏)

@stalbert Will know for sure.

NFT (which is itself just a custom library for SuiteScript) uses hitc/netsuite-types for all the native NS

N/

modules

@stalbert I think hes asking how to import a custom module in a ts file. Im guessing you would have to set a new path in the tsconfig.json and then define some module types

no need to set anything in

tsconfig.json

if you're using relative paths to reach that module e.g.

import { foo } from "../mylibs/foolib"

Wouldnt that give a ts error because the module doesnt exist?

it's probably useful to point out that

@hitc/netsuite-types

for type definitions is orthogonal to how you import custom libraries. netsuite-types is just a types description of all the native modules, no implementation.

Thats why i am suggesting that he may need to create the types for the module he wants to import

@mayerlench yes, that relative path import needs to be (and should be) at that relative path. I try to maintain the same relative path both in your local codebase and in NetSuite File Cabinet for simplicity.

Ahhh, of course. I understand

recently stumbled across that hitc/netsuite-types library and am loving it so far...fyi it can be used in standard amd-style JavaScript files as well 😏

you mean via editor support for the jsdocs? or do you mean with TypeScript's support for plain js files?

@stalbert yah for VSCode at least. I just followed the hitc setup guide on their github and then for any netsuite API instead of having @param {search} search you'd have @param {import('N/search')} search

I helped create the readme for netsuite-types, especially the part around supporting TS 2.x. However, one thing that's changed in more recent versions of TS is it can understand jsdocs... I code in TypeScript so I haven't really needed to test that feature but supposedly current

tsc

can typecheck against JSDOC comments in pure JS files (i.e. get type checking without any TypeScript defined types anywhere to be found)

very cool, didn't know that was a more recent feature in general, but I have been playing around w/ the additional validation in pure JS files via checkJs setting and liking it so far. Some Docs incase anyone else is interested: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/nodejs/working-with-javascript#_type-checking-javascript https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-checking-javascript-files.html#import-types