Type definition files
JavaScript programs written in native JavaScript don't have any type information. If you add a JavaScript library such as jQuery or Lodash to your TypeScript-based application and try to use it, the TypeScript compiler can find any type information and warn you with compilation errors. Compile-time safety, type checking, and context-aware code completion get lost. That is where type definition files come into play.
Type definition files provide type information for JavaScript code that is not statically typed. Type definition files ends with .d.ts and only contain definitions which are not emitted by TypeScript. The declare keyword is used to add types to JavaScript code that exists somewhere. Let's take an example. ...
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