Typescript ignore "import types"

[danikaze]

This is related to this issue.

Specifying

detectiveOptions: {
  ts: {
    skipTypeImports: true,
  }
}

works only for this kind of code

import type { TypeName } from 'path';

but TS is clever enough to auto-detect types (as they don't generate any output on the JS), so this

import { TypeName } from 'path'; // no "type" keyword

should work the same, when TypeName is a type, an interface, a const enum or anything that doesn't generate anything in memory.

In summary, skipTypeImports should work not when there's a import type, but also based on the nature of the imported property as well when there's a basic import.

[danikaze]

I was checking the code of how detective-typescript works, and saw that it only sees one file at a time without knowing what's importing. That makes a bit hard detecting if an export is a type-like declaration or a real object.

My recommendation so far would be to recursively get into what the imported file is exporting and check their types. Keep a cache of AST objects to avoid parsing the same file multiple times...

This "easy" feature requires a somehow complex solution.
Any thoughts?