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• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  May 2023

  Is this correct?

  Yes. The datatables.net package is the core package and is a dependency of datatables.net-bs. The -bs (and other styling packages) just set a bunch of default parameters on the DataTable object in order to make the theming suitable for the styling framework.

  The styling packages just re-export the core file.

  Generally you should just import the style package - since the core file is a dependency, there is no need to import it directly - e.g.:

  import DataTable from 'datatables.net-bs5';
  import 'datatables.net-buttons-bs5';
  

  Rather than:

  import DataTable from 'datatables.net';
  import 'datatables.net-bs5';
  import 'datatables.net-buttons';
  import 'datatables.net-buttons-bs5';
  

  It is basically exactly the same - the first just more compact

  Allan
• geometry Posts: 22Questions: 6Answers: 0

  May 2023

  Ok so what you're saying is that I should just use the types from the -bs variants only and that makes sense to me but we are seeing errors like this

  And this one isn't the only plugin with strange errors. The responsive one also shows this when using the Config type from the the -bs version
  e.g import { Config } from "datatables.net-bs"
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  May 2023 edited May 2023

  Scrap that. I was thinking the extension hadn't been imported, but I see it has. Looking into it more...
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  May 2023

  Right I see the error. The styling packages are incorrectly including their own copy of the DataTables core type information. So when a package such as Select extends DataTables core, it does the core, but not the styling package. The styling package should inherit from the core, so it would also be extended.

  I need to change our build process to fix this - apologies.

  Allan
• geometry Posts: 22Questions: 6Answers: 0

  May 2023

  No worries @allan. Thanks for the follow up and the confirmation we weren't on the wrong track. We'll keep our eyes open for an update
• geometry Posts: 22Questions: 6Answers: 0

  June 2023

  Hey @allan don't want to be a pest but any idea when we can expect a new version addressing this issue? Just a vague date would be great for our future planning
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  June 2023 Answer ✓

  Move likely the week of the 3rd July. That's the current target - I'm making a number of wide ranging changes at the moment, which needs a whole load of things to align before I can get the releases out. Apologies for the delay!

  Allan
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  July 2023 edited July 2023

  Hi,

  Just to say that with DataTables 1.13.5 and all of the other releases I did yesterday, this should now be addressed. The Typescript playground example appears good (looks like it just automatically pulls in the latest version of each library).

  Allan