Yes, we should make sure that you don't need to reach into implementation details to be able to fully use the types (they aren't always inferred if you wrap the client e.g.)

Yes please

+1, this took me quite a while to work out why I couldn't import things directly from algoiasearch.

Any update to this topic?

Reopening the pull request, I lost track of it. Thanks @wiesson !

@Haroenv no problem :)

I kind of solved it for now:

import type { RequestOptions } from "@algolia/transporter";
import type { SearchOptions } from "@algolia/client-search";

// hacky attempt to remove readonly
type Mutable<T> = { -readonly [P in keyof T]: T[P] };

(...)

let requestOptions: Partial<RequestOptions & Mutable<SearchOptions>> = {
  hitsPerPage: resultsPerPage,
};

if (page) {
  requestOptions.page = page;
}

if (lat && lng) {
  requestOptions.aroundLatLng = `${lat}, ${lng}`;
  requestOptions.aroundRadius =  radius * 1000;
}

if (boundingBox) {
  requestOptions.insideBoundingBox = [boundingBox];
}

const { hits, nbHits, page, nbPages } = await searchIndex.search(q, requestOptions);

(...)

This is still an issue, two years later after the first request. The current version of algoliasearch still doesn't have access to types, we need to install several unnecessary packages only for types. Any progress on this?

Any workaround on this issue?

All types are exported, but from other packages, like @algolia/client-search, so you can look into the reference and find the import that way.

done in v5

@shortcuts Is this issue also related to this error that I'm getting locally and in CI? This started happening recently and it's a bit confusing as to what might have triggered this issue.

Here's the log output I'm seeing from CI:

(node:1783) ExperimentalWarning: Importing JSON modules is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
file:///home/runner/work/cypress.io/cypress.io/node_modules/algoliasearch/dist/node.js:54
import { EventType } from "@algolia/client-personalization";
         ^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: The requested module '@algolia/client-personalization' does not provide an export named 'EventType'
    at ModuleJob._instantiate (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:146:21)
    at async ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:22[9](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress.io/actions/runs/11487393453/job/31972113009#step:6:10):5)
    at async ModuleLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:473:24)
    at async asyncRunEntryPointWithESMLoader (node:internal/modules/run_main:123:5)

It would appear that this issue is stemming from inside the package, but I could be wrong.