Typescript support

[aVileBroker]

Currently, using react-three-arjs is a bit frustrating in TS. The R3F Canvas needs to be imported (not used) to get the R3F JSX elements, and none of the components have the props accessible/defined. This codebase is pretty small so adding types should be fairly simple.

I'm happy to work on this and get a PR up for it if need-be!

[j-era]

Hi @aVileBroker, i'm not an TS expert, so I would be very happy if you could point this out with an example?

[aVileBroker]

Sure! Here's two screenshots - one with react-three-fiber importing something, and the other without. You can see that the Canvas isn't actually used, but it does enough to add the threejs primitives to the JSX primitive types.

[aVileBroker]

For the react-three-arjs specific type issues, obviously there are no type definitions so I have a lot // @ts-ignore lines to skip TS trying to check these components. It would be very helpful if the types were defined, though.

[kalwalt]

I think you could develop type definitions for react-three-arjs as described in this guide https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/declaration-files/dts-from-js.html but i never tried, so i can't assure that it's appliable in this case.

[j-era]

Added ts declarations in a separate branch. @aVileBroker Would be happy if you can test if it works like this.

[aVileBroker]

Sweet! I'll check it out, thank you!

[kalwalt]

@j-era @aVileBroker probably is better to move definitions in another folder and then add "types": "types/src/index.d.ts", in package.json or you should in anyway add that entry with "types": "src/index.d.ts",

[j-era]

Updated types in 951e6b9 Think it should work like this @aVileBroker Did you try?

[georg-un]

Is there any progress on this? Can I assist somehow?

[loganknecht]

Hello!

Love this project ❤️ !

Chiming in to say the typescript support would be awesome

Thanks for everything!

[loganknecht]

EDIT:
It looks like the issue I'm experiencing is from #35

Not sure how to solve this.

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I cannot get this library to work with typescript 😞

I have tried using a custom typings file that uses the above types provided
My tsconfig.json

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "allowJs": true,
        "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
        "esModuleInterop": true,
        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
        "isolatedModules": true,
        "jsx": "react-jsx",
        "lib": ["dom", "dom.iterable", "esnext"],
        "module": "esnext",
        "moduleResolution": "node",
        "noEmit": true,
        "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
        "resolveJsonModule": true,
        "skipLibCheck": true,
        "strict": true,
        "target": "es5",
        "typeRoots": ["src/custom_typings", "node_modules/@types"]
    },
    "include": ["src"]
}

The typincs file is in this location
REPOSITORY_ROOT/src/custom_typings/artcom__react-three-arjs.d.ts

My type definitions

import { Props } from "@react-three/fiber/dist/declarations/src/web/Canvas";

declare module "@artcom/react-three-arjs" {
    export interface ARCanvasProps extends Props {
        arEnabled?: boolean;
        tracking?: boolean;
        patternRatio?: number;
        detectionMode?: string;
        cameraParametersUrl?: string;
        matrixCodeType?: string;
        sourceType?: string;
        onCameraStreamReady?: () => void;
        onCameraStreamError?: () => void;
    }

    export interface ARMarkerProps {
        children: React.ReactNode;
        type: string;
        barcodeValue?: string;
        patternUrl?: string;
        params?: Object;
        onMarkerFound?: () => void;
        onMarkerLost?: () => void;
    }

    export declare function ARCanvas(props: ARCanvasProps): JSX.Element;

    export declare function ARMarker(props: ARMarkerProps): JSX.Element;
}

But it just won't work.

I have tried other type definitions such as an ambient type declaration for the types of this library. None of the works.

@aVileBroker - Were you able to get this working?
Has anyone been able to get this working?

[bloodylupin]

EDIT: It looks like the issue I'm experiencing is from #35

Not sure how to solve this.

I cannot get this library to work with typescript 😞

I have tried using a custom typings file that uses the above types provided My `tsconfig.json`

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "allowJs": true,
        "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
        "esModuleInterop": true,
        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
        "isolatedModules": true,
        "jsx": "react-jsx",
        "lib": ["dom", "dom.iterable", "esnext"],
        "module": "esnext",
        "moduleResolution": "node",
        "noEmit": true,
        "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
        "resolveJsonModule": true,
        "skipLibCheck": true,
        "strict": true,
        "target": "es5",
        "typeRoots": ["src/custom_typings", "node_modules/@types"]
    },
    "include": ["src"]
}

The typincs file is in this location REPOSITORY_ROOT/src/custom_typings/artcom__react-three-arjs.d.ts

My type definitions

import { Props } from "@react-three/fiber/dist/declarations/src/web/Canvas";

declare module "@artcom/react-three-arjs" {
    export interface ARCanvasProps extends Props {
        arEnabled?: boolean;
        tracking?: boolean;
        patternRatio?: number;
        detectionMode?: string;
        cameraParametersUrl?: string;
        matrixCodeType?: string;
        sourceType?: string;
        onCameraStreamReady?: () => void;
        onCameraStreamError?: () => void;
    }

    export interface ARMarkerProps {
        children: React.ReactNode;
        type: string;
        barcodeValue?: string;
        patternUrl?: string;
        params?: Object;
        onMarkerFound?: () => void;
        onMarkerLost?: () => void;
    }

    export declare function ARCanvas(props: ARCanvasProps): JSX.Element;

    export declare function ARMarker(props: ARMarkerProps): JSX.Element;
}

But it just won't work.

I have tried other type definitions such as an ambient type declaration for the types of this library. None of the works.

@aVileBroker - Were you able to get this working? Has anyone been able to get this working?

Hola,
I just started a project with Next and TS and today I wrote the d.ts file to make TS happy.
Maybe I have a clue for you, did you try importing the Props after declaring the global module?
That's my d.ts file and I have no more errors on IDE. Clearly if you don't need all the props or need more you can make them optional or add different ones

declare module "@artcom/react-three-arjs" {
  import { WebGLRenderer } from "three";
  import { CanvasProps } from "@react-three/fiber/dist/declarations/src/web/Canvas";
  declare const ARCanvas = ({
    children,
    camera,
    gl,
    onCreated,
    ...props
  }: {
    children: ReactNode;
    camera: { position: number[] };
    gl: {
      antialias: boolean;
      powerPreference: string;
      physicallyCorrectLights: boolean;
    };
    onCameraStreamReady: () => void;
    onCameraStreamError: () => void;
    onCreated: ({ gl }: { gl: WebGLRenderer }) => void;
  } & CanvasProps) => JSX.Element;
  declare const ARMarker = ({
    children,
    params,
    type,
    patternUrl,
  }: {
    children: ReactNode;
    params: { smooth: boolean };
    type: "barcode" | "hiro" | "pattern";
    patternUrl: string;
    onMarkerFound: () => void;
  }) => JSX.Element;
}

In addition to that I had some errors that went away dynamic importing the ArCanvas with ssr: false. Hope it helps, bye!