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Hello! I’m looking at the <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-interop.html|docs for “using js code from kotlin”> and was wondering if there was ways to forgo the manual declaration of external dependencies (npm packages) and instead generate these from typescript definitions?

A fully automated way isn't available unfortunately.
You can try with <https://github.com/Kotlin/dukat|Dukat> (although it might break with new TS versions), or <https://github.com/karakum-team/karakum|Karakum> (which is difficult to set up in most cases).

I landed on a mix of Karakum + manual adjustments. The first generation will be costly in terms of spent time tho.

Also remember that most of the times you don't need a full copy of the externals, but just selected APIs. I'd start with what you really need first.

Also Claude is pretty good at producing these. May need a little tweaking, but a good way to automate 90%

The problem is always splitting the output up into multiple files.
But might be that it's me, I don't like having a gigantic single file for all externals.

Awesome, thanks all! really nice to hear. I’ll likely just take the route of only defining partial/needed external functionality.