TypeDoc out of memory error in 0.15

[Gerrit0]

Hi @Gerrit0, I'm also getting the same error on my repo

https://github.com/pirix-gh/ts-toolbelt

npm run build:docs

This happens since my last update, where I made type distribution a default. So I suspect that typedoc tries to unfold types too much. I'd be nice if it could preserve the type "as it is" in the code.

Originally posted by @pirix-gh in #835 (comment)

[Gerrit0]

This is happening because we call TypeScript's typeToString helper and compilerOptions.noTruncation is set. The _Assign type is recursive (against all of the TS's team recommendations, but ideally we shouldn't break on this), so we then go into an infinite loop expanding it.

https://github.com/pirix-gh/ts-toolbelt/blob/bd1c8914265d2206998348537dedbf9147fb1c50/src/Object/Assign.ts#L13-L20

[Gerrit0]

It looks like fixing this specific case just requires adding a new type converter for types with kind IndexedAccessType

[millsp]

Well, believe it or not, those same types are powering ramda. They are recursive types that are crafted not to overflow, the docs were generating properly before I started forcing distribution.

In any case, it's my bad, I was distributing a type that ended in a redistribution loop. So this is not a bug, it's my mistake and typedoc is working correctly 🎉

[Gerrit0]

TypeDoc should still handle it correctly, so it is a bug I'd like to fix :) I have a fix for the JSON output, I just also need to verify that it works as expected when generating html.

The recursive types won't overflow - so long as they are passed a type. The issue here is TypeScript assumes they aren't recursive and can be fully expanded without a value.

[Gerrit0]

Fix has been merged, I should get a release out later today :)