Merge pull request #18 from piotr-oles/feature/add-global-type-alias-to-runtime

feat: add global assemblyscript types aliases to the runtime

Author: piotr-oles

README.md

@@ -18,10 +18,12 @@ Node.js >= 12 and [webpack 4 or webpack 5](https://github.com/webpack/webpack)
 
 ```sh
 # with npm
-npm install --save-dev as-loader assemblyscript
+npm install as-loader
+npm install --save-dev assemblyscript
 
 # with yarn
-yarn add --dev as-loader assemblyscript
+yarn add as-loader
+yarn add --dev assemblyscript
 ```
 
 The minimal `webpack.config.js`:

src/runtime/bind.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import type {
 } from "./types";
 import { context } from "./context";
 import { AsBindReturnTypes } from "./types/ref-types";
+import "./types/std";
 
 async function instantiate<
   TModule,

src/runtime/index.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import type {
   AsLoaderModule,
 } from "./types";
 import { context } from "./context";
+import "./types/std";
 
 async function instantiate<TModule>(
   module: TModule | string,

src/runtime/types/std.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// Types
+declare type bool = boolean;
+declare type i8 = number;
+declare type i16 = number;
+declare type i32 = number;
+declare type isize = number;
+declare type u8 = number;
+declare type u16 = number;
+declare type u32 = number;
+declare type usize = number;
+declare type f32 = number;
+declare type f64 = number;
+
+/** Special type evaluating the indexed access index type. */
+declare type indexof<T extends unknown[]> = keyof T;
+/** Special type evaluating the indexed access value type. */
+declare type valueof<T extends unknown[]> = T[0];