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Andreas Riedmüller •

I would suggest this:

Do not include the lib folder in tsconfig.app.json, instead create a tsconfig.lib.json like so:

{
  "extends": "./tsconfig.app.json",
  "include": ["lib"]
}
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Then add tsconfig.lib.json to the references array in your tsconfig.json.

And set the build script to:

    "build": "tsc -b ./tsconfig.lib.json && vite build",
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Andreas Riedmüller •

I made a branch with the latest vite version (5.4.4 at the time of writing): github.com/receter/my-component-li...

Here is a summary of what I had to change for the building the types:

  1. update to vite-plugin-dts@4

  2. add tsconfig path to dts config

    dts({
      tsconfigPath: resolve(__dirname, "tsconfig.lib.json"),
    }),
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This outputs types to a lib subfolder in dist. So you need to update your package.json to point to the correct type entry: "./dist/lib/main.d.ts" (or you could use rollupTypes: true)

Also I manually had to install ajv because of an issue: stackoverflow.com/questions/787352...

In this branch I also use the new package.json exports feature and "self reference" the library in App.tsx.

I will try to find time to update my article accordingly, but for now this branch might help you.