class export is called export=

[hiimjustin000]

Search terms

export, export=

Expected Behavior

The class would be correctly named (In this case, Licenses)

Actual Behavior

The class is called export=

Steps to reproduce the bug

https://github.com/bwbjustin/bwbjustin.github.io
https://github.com/bwbjustin/github-licenses

Environment

• Typedoc version: 0.20.35
• TypeScript version: 4.2.4
• Node.js version: 14.16.0
• OS: Windows 10

[hiimjustin000]

How is this not a bug? What behavior causes this?

[Gerrit0]

(I was looking for a canonical issue, but apparently don't really have one...)

This is expected behavior. export = Licenses does not create an export named Licenses, export class Licenses would, or export { Licenses } would. export = creates a module whose export is the value.

If I read docs for a modern library and see that Licenses is exported, then I expect to do import { Licenses } from "github-licenses".

I provided an example plugin for renaming default exports, I suspect something very similar could be done here.

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Sidenote: Why is this a class? It's all static methods... Why not just export a bunch of functions using ES module exports?

[hiimjustin000]

Ok, on that.

[felipecrs]

This is now handled by version 0.3.0 of typedoc-plugin-rename-defaults thanks to felipecrs/typedoc-plugin-rename-defaults#1.