Publish types regularly to NPM

[dcollien]

The last publish of @azure/functions to NPM was reportedly 9 months ago:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@azure/functions

NPM: v1.0.3
Current: v1.2.0

As such, newer updates (e.g. Cookies typedef) are not available

It'd be great if there was a more frequent publish schedule for this NPM package to keep it up to date with what's in the repo.

Repro steps

e.g.
import { Cookie } from "@azure/functions"
reports:
node_modules/@azure/functions/Interfaces"' has no exported member 'Cookie'.

Known workarounds

Referencing the git repo instead of NPM package in package.json might work?

or copy-pasting the typedefs out of the source code into your own module definitions, if you're so inclined (🤢)

[dcollien]

N.B. I'm unable to work out how to reference the subdir in package.json, this is as far as I got with NPM: npm/npm#2974
and with yarn: yarnpkg/yarn#4725 to no avail.

A method like: https://github.com/ramasilveyra/gitpkg looks like a potential solution, if there's any reason to hold off from NPM releases, but still making the latest available in your own project via package.json

Is there something I'm missing?

[mhoeger]

@dcollien - Oof so sorry! Just published a newer version and keeping this issue to track adding this to our release flow.

[dcollien]

Thanks very much Marie!