Feature/enhanced type support

[WHenderson]

• Replaces visitor pattern / Extends type coverage
• Better support for complex nested types
• Attempts reference resolution directly before falling back to source maps
• Normalize path separators to support cross platform
• Replace usage of rm with rimraf in package scripts to support windows

[nlepage]

Hi @WHenderson
Thanks for your contribution!
I don't have time to perform a full review right now.
I should be able to by the end of next week.

[nlepage]

Hi @WHenderson

Sorry for the delay.

I took the initiative of reordering the commits, in order to add the new examples before the visitor's refactoring.
I also added a commit with some tests on the new examples.

Turns out the new examples were already working without the refactoring (except for the Intersection but this was a bug in Typedoc itself, fixed here : TypeStrong/typedoc#1910)

Ideally I'd like to have some examples that highlight the need for the refactoring.
Could you add some, maybe based on failing cases you would have on a project of yourself?

Thanks in advance.

[WHenderson]

Hi @WHenderson

Sorry for the delay.

I took the initiative of reordering the commits, in order to add the new examples before the visitor's refactoring. I also added a commit with some tests on the new examples.

Turns out the new examples were already working without the refactoring (except for the Intersection but this was a bug in Typedoc itself, fixed here : TypeStrong/typedoc#1910)

Ideally I'd like to have some examples that highlight the need for the refactoring. Could you add some, maybe based on failing cases you would have on a project of yourself?

Thanks in advance.

A large number of the types weren't correctly linking up in my main mono-repo, so I debugged through the generation steps and came up with this fix. As you can tell from the order of commits, I didn't use TDD and am surprised that all the types correctly linked even without the changes.

If I find some time I'll see if I can create a test case that justifies the fix. Right now I'm just trying to get my repo to the stage I can make it public (sorting documentation and licensing).

Thanks for taking the time though and also for creating this extension in the first place!

[nlepage]

Hi @WHenderson
I published a new release v0.2.0 for typedoc v0.23 compatibility.
This new version doesn't rely on source maps anymore.
I picked up some of your commits on the main branch (windows compatibility, new examples and new tests).
Please let me know if the new version works for you.
Thanks.