Require should also look for .d.ts files

[ivogabe]

If you compile a .ts file to a definitions file (.d.ts), and open that file in Brackets, you will see errors on the require calls.

Example:
import someFile = require('./someFile');
(and in the same directory there is also a file named someFile.d.ts)

[fdecampredon]

hm I doubt that is a valid ts syntax normally d.ts files declare external modules that you should use in require instead of the file path, am I wrong ?

[ivogabe]

If you compile .ts files to .d.ts files, requires will reference a .d.ts files.

Example:
main.ts:

import other = require('./other');
export var a = new other.MyClass();

other.ts:

export class MyClass {}

compiles to:
main.d.ts:

import other = require('./other');
export var a: other.MyClass;

other.d.ts:

export class MyClass {}

If you move all the definition files to another folder, the require references to a .d.ts file. The tsc command does look for definition files.

[ivogabe]

This can be used to publish a package written in typescript on npm. In the package you include the compiled javascript and the definition files, and a definitions.d.ts file. From another file, that requires the package, you reference the definitions.d.ts file. The contents of definitions.d.ts:

declare module 'my-awesome-package' {
    import lib = require('./definition/index'); // require a .d.ts file (and this file can also require other .d.ts files)
    export = lib;
}