Should I use tsd or typings?

Question

I am wondering what is recommended for the Angular team? I could not find it anywhere in the documents, and I wonder what the differences are between them. Any ideas are more than welcome!

Answer 1

tsd seems to be deprecated in favor of typing, and Angular is moving on to typing.

I have mentioned several times that tsd is deprecated

• http://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/tsd/issues/269

• http://github.com/angular/angular/issues/6887

• http://github.com/angular/universal/issues/206
• http://github.com/angular/zone.js/issues/240
• http://github.com/AngularClass/angular2-webpack-starter/issues/323

Answer 2

It seems the situation is changing again. As far as I understand, Typescript 2.0 will use npm (Node Package Manager) to manage Typescript declarations for existing JavaScript libraries.

The above example is what you can do:

 npm install --save @types/lodash 

What will two things do then:

• It captures the declaration files for lodash and saves them in a directory named @ types / lodash in our node_modules package.
• Saves this as a dependency in our package. json

For more information, see this announcement from Microsoft: The Future of Declaration Files

And also this Github question: Improve the receipt of the declaration file .

Answer 3

yes, as indicated in angular2 changelog from beta6 https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#200-beta6-2016-02-11

• Typics are no longer included in the distribution