Generation of TypeScript declaration files from JavaScript code

@article{Cristiani2021GenerationOT,
  title={Generation of TypeScript declaration files from JavaScript code},
  author={Fernando Cristiani and Peter Thiemann},
  journal={Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes},
  year={2021}
}
  • Fernando Cristiani, Peter Thiemann
  • Published 18 August 2021
  • Computer Science
  • Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes
Developers are starting to write large and complex applications in TypeScript, a typed dialect of JavaScript. TypeScript applications integrate JavaScript libraries via typed descriptions of their APIs called declaration files. DefinitelyTyped is the standard public repository for these files. The repository is populated and maintained manually by volunteers, which is error-prone and time consuming. Discrepancies between a declaration file and the JavaScript implementation lead to incorrect… 
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