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But why would any of that need to be done manually in a .d.ts file? You can just write your type definitions in ts files

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Types are meta data for the compiler. They are not code that is compiled to JavaScript, so I isolate my type definitions to d.ts files. That is the only reason I have d.ts files at all.

Types are also documentation for the developers reading and editing the code.

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