Please remove incorrect index.d.ts from the published package

[dhdaines]

The types in index.d.ts are quite incorrect, whereas the third-party ones in DefinitelyTyped (@types/flexsearch) appear to be correct.

Unfortunately TypeScript will prefer to use the ones in the package... the advice on the internet seems to be just to downgrade FlexSearch, presumably to a version where index.d.ts is correct. This seems like bad advice.

Please fix the types or simply remove them so the library can be used from TypeScript.

[dhdaines]

Note that the best workaround for the moment is to use the paths option in tsconfig.json to override the built-in types, as per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41558661/ignore-bundled-d-ts-and-use-external-declarations (actually I am surprised this is not a more common situation with NPM modules given their highly variable code quality):

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "paths": {
      "flexsearch": ["node_modules/@types/flexsearch"]
    }
  }
}

[Theaninova]

I'm using patches with patch-package. Not the best solution but it works.