Generating Typescript types with v2?

[zb140]

Hi! I just recently came across Wails, and I'm really liking it so far. Thanks for the great work! So far I haven't had much or any trouble getting things to work, but today I decided to try the v2 alpha. Is it possible to generate Typescript definitions for bindings in v2? Of course I know that an alpha is expected to have missing features, but I've seen some comments and commit messages referring to it, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.

[leaanthony]

Hi there! There is a way of doing this though it's a bit hacky. If you run your app in dev mode, it will generate a node package in frontend wrapping your backend api. It's not currently exposed and dev mode is currently broken so we're not in an ideal position! The reason I say hacky is because it basically needs to run and it dumps the files based on reflection. This means that we lose the variable names.
A better approach, and much harder, is to parse the Go files of the project and generate based on that. There's a fairly robust attempt at this here but as you can see it's complicated and I just haven't got round to making it work. I did have this as part of wails generate but it looks like I disabled it for some reason - I'll check why.
In the short term, I might make wails generate tsmodule that will compile your project in a special mode that just dumps out the module then exits.

[zb140]

Great, thanks for the quick response! I'll keep an eye out; I'm happy to do some testing as things develop.

[leaanthony]

That would be amazing - thanks! I've got too many other things with higher priority unfortunately.