`--dts` does not generate `.d.ts` for JavaScript files about bunchee HOT 6 CLOSED

Ah yeah you're right. --dts it's kinda always enable if tsconfig.json is present. So it's not a very useful flag...

Ideally if you have <cwd>/tsconfig.json it should be enabled, if you don't have tsconfig.json it's always disabled. We should probably just drop that flag but still keep --no-dts

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requires tsconfig, silly me.

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But, could this be supported? create .d.ts for JS without js/tsconfig. Or else, need action to inform that requires tsconfig

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if you run bunchee directly and let it detect the project it can generate tsconfig for you. We can warn for them that tsconfig is missing, but I'm not sure if we should generate one for them yet since CLI could run from anywhere then cwd can be anywhere as well

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I was confused about --dts since, for typescript files, .d.ts is always generated unless --no-dts is set.
Therefore, I thought --dts was for the javascript files to generate .d.ts.
If not, it seems --dts is missing a place to function at the moment.
Maybe we could a) remove it from the flag and keep it on API, or b) support generating .d.ts from javascript?
I need more investigation, but it seems like rollup-plugin-dts can handle b) it with allowJS (stated not recommended tho).

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Thanks for the clarification! 😆

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