Using latest version of TypeScript Definition with older JavaScript libraries

Usually you can search for previous versions' definitions by running the following command with tsd:

tsd query angular -v all

Then install the specific version you want (ex. tsd install angular -v 1.0.0).

There's a problem though. For some reason there seems to be only two other versions of angular available:

- angularjs / angular
- angularjs / angular-v1.0.0
- angularjs / angular-v1.2.0

For that reason, I would suggest to take a look at the commit history of angular.d.ts and find the last definition file before it switched from 1.3 to 1.4. Knowing when Angular 1.4 was released helps.

By doing that, you will find this definition file for 1.3.

Use the ref attribute to specify the exact type definition file version, which corresponds to the branch on git. In your case you can use the below steps.

1. Add the required tsd dependencies using

   tsd install angular --save

2. The save step will create atsd.json file with below structure:

   {
     "version": "v4",
     "repo": "borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped",
     "ref": "master",
     "path": "typings",
     "bundle": "typings/tsd.d.ts",
     "installed": {
         "angularjs/angular.d.ts": {
            "commit": "77ec1408257c677f8fd8d6798ebaf6bd87c11b9d"
         }
     }
}

3. Update the ref attribute to required angular type definition version. In your case most probably it should be 1.3.0

4. Run tsd install again to download the required type definitions

What I have done is a bit like taking the long way and isn't exactly your scenario, but it worked for me and hopefully people in my situation will land here...

In my scenario I was ripping out NuGet as the typescript definition manager and replacing it with tsd and I needed a specific version of the lodash typescript definition (0.4.1) but tsd was installing the most recent version. Since versioning the way bower does it isn't yet supported upon install and tsd uses commit hashes to keep track of what version you're on, I used nuget to find the version I wanted:

then replaced the "commit" hash in tsd.json with the git commit listed in the Description:

It was a little painful because I had to type the hash in manually but it ensured that I had the version that I needed.