Support referencing TS type definitions for type: 'json' fields

[schickling]

In some cases where you're using type: 'json' you'd like to reference some existing TS type definitions instead of the any type that's currently used for json fields. This applies to both regular fields and computedFields.

Example:

Rough API idea:

{
  // ...  
  typescriptType: { name: 'IReadTimeResults', from: 'reading-time' }
}

Notes

• A potential other direction/idea for this could be to "derive" nested document types based on existing TS types. (Would address Support for nested field types in computed fields #149)

[essential-randomness]

Is there any sense of what would be needed for this? Is it something a drive-through contributor could take care of?

[schickling]

Thanks for your question @essential-randomness. Unfortunately I think this is part of some medium-to-large iteration on the current schema/typing-system and thus not a good candidate for any "drive-by contribution".

Please leave a 👍 in the main comment though to express your "demand". :)

[essential-randomness]

Done!

Is there anywhere to go to better understand the future iteration of the schema/typing system that you envision? There are some project I have in mind that where contentlayer would be helpful (mostly so I don't have to reimplement typed MDX + the build pipelines myself :P), but I'd like to have a clearer picture of where you want to be when you reach 1.0 before I start building on top of your work.