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TypeScript Deep Dive: Creating a Type Declaration File

This course will teach you how to create TypeScript declaration files to provide type information for the most common types of JavaScript library – those based on globals, or modern modular ones that use ES Modules, CommonJS, AMD, or UMD modules.

Intermediate
1h
(9)

Created by Dan Wellman

Last Updated Aug 11, 2025

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TypeScript Deep Dive: Creating a Type Declaration File

This course will teach you how to create TypeScript declaration files to provide type information for the most common types of JavaScript library – those based on globals, or modern modular ones that use ES Modules, CommonJS, AMD, or UMD modules.

Intermediate
1h
(9)

Created by Dan Wellman

Last Updated Aug 11, 2025

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What you'll learn

In this course, TypeScript Deep Dive: Creating a Type Declaration File, you'll learn how to create declaration files which provide type information when using JavaScript libraries.

First, you'll learn exactly what declaration files are for and see how they can be generated automatically by the compiler, as well as how they can be enhanced with JSDoc. Next, you'll discover how to create declaration files manually for all of the most common kinds of libraries like those based on browser globals, or those based on modules. Finally, you'll see how you can publish declaration files to the public DefinitelyTyped repository to share your declaration files with the world.

When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to use create declaration files for any kind of library that you might want to use in your next project.

TypeScript Deep Dive: Creating a Type Declaration File
Intermediate
1h
(9)
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Dan Wellman
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Dan Wellman is a web developer, author, and course instructor from the UK. He has been a developer for around 20 years, and has been writing and making videos about his experiences for almost as long. He has written 10 books about JavaScript libraries and TypeScript, and produced many video courses on front-end development.

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