[Feature Request] @types/<package> for packages that already include types as Unused

[dylang]

Hi, great project!

I noticed that Webpack 5 now includes types, so including @types/webpack is no longer necessary.

We probably have a lot of packages like this.

To figure out which packages now include types, maybe we can look in each dependency's package.json for a "types" key?

[webpro]

What is the issue you're seeing? Is @types/webpack being reported as a false positive?

[ElPrudi]

I see the potential too: If the dependency comes with it's own type definitions, and you have a @types dependency of it installed that is now deprecated, it's useless and should be removed, no matter if you included it or not.

[dylang]

In the example above, @types/webpack should be reported as unused.

[webpro]

🚀 This issue has been resolved in v2.30.0. See Release 2.30.0 for release notes.

[webpro]

As far as I can see Knip just needs to check for the types (or typings) field in package.json (no implicit file exist checks or anything), so that's what it's doing now :)

[webpro]

🚀 This issue has been resolved in v2.32.0. See Release 2.32.0 for release notes.