Builtin Typescript support

[hichemfantar]

Any plans to rewrite express in typescript to avoid having to rely on external type packages?

[bjohansebas]

There are no plans to redo Express with TypeScript, maybe we could launch Express with types, but not redo the library

[hichemfantar]

any reason for not rewriting in TS?

[hichemfantar]

@bjohansebas Will you accept a PR?

[bjohansebas]

We wouldn't accept a PR to redo Express. If you want to help, there are several discussions happening in this thread, and PRs that need to be reviewed. You can check the statusboard or look at the issues/PRs in this repository.

If you want type definitions support, you can open a new issue to discuss it with the team if there isn't one already in this repository.

[wesleytodd]

Please do not open a new issue for type definitions. We already have a few in the discussions repo.

[hichemfantar]

This is about a typescript rewrite not type definitions.
Type defs are already available via a different package

[wesleytodd]

Yes I am well aware. Please see our discussions repo for the ongoing conversation around this topic.

[hichemfantar]

correct me if i'm wrong but i checked the repo and i can't find any discussions on migrating to ts

[wesleytodd]

This is the one we consolidated the others into: expressjs/discussions#192