Export TS Typings

[juliemr]

Now that Protractor is written in TS, we should consolidate and export typings via npm - see http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/typings-for-npm-packages.html

[Meligy]

Hello,
I've been a bit curious about this one, trying to figure out what it takes, maybe taking it for a spin.

Is that a matter of just adding this line to the packages.json file?

{
    ...
    "typings": "./lib/globals.d.ts"
    ...
}

Is there anything special with being globals or so?

Thanks a lot :)

[cnishina]

I'm currently working on this... this will be broken down into several steps:

• Move protractor.ts to browser.ts to clean up the namespaces that are exported
  • Fix selenium webdriver api's that have changed
  • Fix *.prototype in the code base
• Create a protractor.d.ts file. Add a build rule to concat the *.d.ts file under the protractor namespace
• Create an example that uses the protractor.d.ts file and look for issues on typings that are missing
• Fix definitely typed selenium webdriver to remove the webdriver namespace from global.d.ts

[cnishina]

Adding PRs that got us here: #2902, #2919, #2948, #2965, #3114, #3138, #3141, #3142, #3143, #3148, #3149, #3151, #3152, #3153, #3156, #3214, #3271, #3279, #3281, #3288, #3307

[cnishina]

@Meligy Added typings to package.json (pr #3298)

package.json:

{
  ...
  "typings": "built/index.d.ts",
  ...
}

[hawkerm]

Are there any examples yet of what a TS version of the config file and a test suite look like?

[igniteram]

@hawkerm you can find them here : https://github.com/angular/protractor/tree/master/exampleTypescript

[juliemr]

Done!