`@type {const}` produces namespace in .d.ts instead of normal object type

[jorgecasar]

🔎 Search Terms

@type {const}
const
definition types

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This is a crash in all versions

⏯ Playground Link

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?target=99&jsx=0&ts=5.3.2&filetype=ts#code/KYDwDg9gTgLgBAYwgOwM7wLYE8DCL1wC8cA9AFRlwACMWYwcA3kmjAL5xklMCwAUAEgAZhAgAuOAHIARgEMokgDT9hAV1UTGK4aIkz5klW35sA3PyA

💻 Code

// Typescript file
export const myConst = /** @type {const} */ {
	foo: 'bar',
	fuu: {
		foo: 'bar'
	}
};

// Javascript file
export const myConst = /** @type {const} */ {
	foo: 'bar',
	fuu: {
		foo: 'bar'
	}
};

🙁 Actual behavior

// .D.TS from Typescript file
export declare const myConst: {
 foo: string;
 fuu: {
 foo: string;
 };
};

// .D.TS from Javascript file
export namespace myConst {
 let foo: string;
 namespace fuu {
 let foo_1: string;
 export { foo_1 as foo };
 }
}

🙂 Expected behavior

Same output in both cases. Typescript file output is the correct one.

Additional information about the issue

No response

[fatcerberus]

The @type {const} doesn't seem to be relevant - the .js produces the same output whether it's present or not.

Note that TS ignores type info in JSDoc comments when processing .ts files.

[jorgecasar]

Form typescript documentation: You can even cast to const just like TypeScript:

let one = /** @type {const} */(1);

I guess, same code in Typescript and Javascript should output same Javascript and same definition types files. And even more when you are typing Javascript code with jsdoc as Typescript supports

[RyanCavanaugh]

In TS files, you have to use TS syntax for type annotations / assertions. Producing identical .d.ts output from .ts and .js files is not an intended invariant.

[jorgecasar]

Then, how can I annotate the JS file to get a constant declaration? I'm trying to expose types of a library to be able using it with Typescript and this is not what a Typescript developer expect for a const:

export namespace myConst {
 let foo: string;
 namespace fuu {
 let foo_1: string;
 export { foo_1 as foo };
 }
}

In the other hand, based on your answer if I would like to move a project from js to ts could generate unexpected results during the migration. I thought that Typescript was a superset of Javascript, and same code should producing same output.

[RyanCavanaugh]

The are sort of two issues being implied here:

• TS and JS .d.ts output should be identical -- again, this is not an invariant
• JS .d.ts is producing a weird namespace declaration when it could just be a const - this should be changed

[sandersn]

I think there are two smaller repro pairs that are relevant.

Equivalence of 'as const':

export const a_ts = { foo: 'bar' } as const
export const a_js = /** @type {const} */({ foo: 'bar' })

Both a_ts and a_js should have type { readonly foo: 'bar' } not { foo: string }. Quick info shows that they do, so there's no bug here.

Equivalence of const object-literal:

export const b_ts = { foo: 'bar' }
export const b_js = { foo: 'bar' }

Both b_ts and b_js should generate export declare const b_ts: { foo: string } But b_js generates

export namespace b_js {
 let foo: string
}

This is the bug; the rest of the export { foo_1 as foo } in the longer examples are renaming shenanigans that are required for a namespace (as far as I know off the top of my head).

I'm pretty sure this is a result of const x = { object: "literal" } being tagged as an assignment declaration, so the fix is likely either a design change in the binder or a workaround in declaration emit (where the workaround is essentially "this looks special but there's only one declaration, so treat it normally after all").