How to generate “*.d.ts” in TypeScript?

Question

How to generate “*.d.ts” in typescript or creates and import @types? Is there any way to create d.ts for jquery plugin or plain javascript library?

Answer 1

If you want to create the declaration file only, without producing other .js files, you can run the compiler with the emitDeclarationOnly option

tsc --emitDeclarationOnly

Here is a full list of available compiler options.