How to download @types of a project only

[MatthD]

I am looking for a way to download the types definitions for my dependencies of my project.

The idea is:

• I am working working with docker on Mac host so my package are installed inside them
• I do not need (and I cannot because some packages don't install corectly on Mac) to download the wholes packages module .
• I need typing of packages on my host to have good dev experience.

Because package.json have a types fields I suppose there is a way to only download them but no luck to find how.

[jakebailey]

I don't quite understand what you're asking for; if you're depending on @types packages, they will be installed from npm and you will only get what is required. There's no way to avoid using a package manager here.

[MatthD]

Ok so to be clear, for the moment to have a dev-experience that is good enough with docker and typescript .
I do a copy of node_modules and filter to keep only package.json and all .d.ts and expose them as a volume to Mac host.

Just thinking it could be could if there is a tool at DefinitelyTyped-tools to only download types of modules of a project and not install the whole deps.

[jakebailey]

I don't understand the motivation for doing such a thing, but either way, this repo holds tooling for developing DefinitelyTyped itself, not tooling for using types packages. This request seems out of scope.