GOBL typescript types auto-generation

[tom2strobl]

Hey there!

we call the backend from typescript and want to have type-safety on our end when constructing GOBL json in development, so we need transformation from the json schemas to types. While there is prior art in json-schema-to-ts & json-schema-to-typescript, both libraries were a little overchallenged by GOBLs complexity and self-references.

So I wrote a vanilla nodejs script without dependencies that cleanly transforms the json schemas in gobl/data/schemas to a singular types.ts file to be picked up. We installed the gobl repo as a submodule and update it like so:

git submodule update --remote --merge gobl && node scripts/generate-types.js

Here's the code: https://gist.github.com/tom2strobl/708b15dd3bf997115c245281f052a7e4
Feel free to add it to the repo or tell me where in the repo to put it in a PR.

Cheers,
Tom