From 3b81225ba389fec31f1643fb12da56aaae33ce13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Giannini
 <Matthew Giannini 1274158+mgiannini@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 08:39:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] nodeJs: write static type$ field in d.ts file

---
 src/nodeJs/fan/ts/CompileTsPlugin.fan | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/nodeJs/fan/ts/CompileTsPlugin.fan b/src/nodeJs/fan/ts/CompileTsPlugin.fan
index 6b36efdd3..b068000be 100644
--- a/src/nodeJs/fan/ts/CompileTsPlugin.fan
+++ b/src/nodeJs/fan/ts/CompileTsPlugin.fan
@@ -92,6 +92,12 @@ class CompileTsPlugin : CompilerStep
       }
 
       // Write fields
+      if (true)
+      {
+        // write <Class>.type$ field for use in TypeScript
+        t := getNamespacedType("Type", "sys", this.pod)
+        out.print("  static type\$: ${t}\n")
+      }
       fields := type.fields.findAll |field|
       {
         field.isPublic &&