Typings for Network Information API

[aneeven]

Search Terms

• Network
• Network Information
• Network API
• netinfo

Suggestion

There are no types for the current draft Network Information API yet. Since it already landed in some browsers, I'd like to change that.

Use Cases

For use cases please take a look at MDNs example here.

Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript / JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. new expression-level syntax)

Are you open for a PR?

Cheers

[aneeven]

Any news on my proposal? :)

[RyanCavanaugh]

APIs have to leave experimental state before we add them to lib.d.ts.

[lacolaco]

@aneeven As a temporary solution, I've created a type definition package. If you still want the types, it may help you. Thanks

https://github.com/lacolaco/network-information-types

[eliasm307]

@RyanCavanaugh are these APIs still classed as experimental? MDN has put a "living standard" status on these now

[TeoAvignon]

It would be really nice to have an official solution !

[blixt]

It looks like navigator.connection and NetworkInterface was introduced to TypeScript (in 9ebe11c/v4.4, after which the repo mentioned above was deprecated) but removed again a year later in 6004b35/v4.8.

The value is available to more than 75% of web users according to Can I use, so I expected it to stick around. Will it make a comeback?