Undocumented breaking change in 5.5.0-beta for reference directives about typescript HOT 3 CLOSED

Hello @Jack-Works, thanks for highlighting this. Your repro is using reference directives in the project's public-facing entrypoint module.

/// <reference path="./env.d.ts" />

It's true there is an intentional breaking change introduced by @jakebailey in the PR for Do not preserve references in declaration emit, unless preserve=true. And this is not yet documented in the TS 5.5 Beta announcement. so that post should be updated.

The intended workaround for cases where you want the reference directive included in the published declaration file is to add preserve=true.

/// <reference path="./env.d.ts" preserve=true/>

I'd suggest re-titling this issue:

Undocumented breaking change in 5.5.0-beta for reference directives

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Sorry about that; it definitely was meant to be there in the blog! We'll get it updated.

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Blog post has been updated: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-5-beta/#simplified-reference-directive-declaration-emit

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