Conditional type gets resolved to any

[LekoArts]

Hello!

I'm trying to debug an issue in my project using Typedoc where a conditional type is getting resolved to any. I didn't open a bug report because so far I fail to reproduce it outside of my project. But maybe I'm missing something and would love some input!

So I'm documenting a React hook which has its return type in another package. The return type is a union and one of the keys (orgRole) is using a type with conditionals.

However, the generated JSON resolves it to any while it should be a string:

{
	"id": 7080,
	"name": "useAuth",
	"variant": "declaration",
	"kind": 64,
	"flags": {},
	"signatures": [
		{
			"id": 7081,
			"name": "useAuth",
			"variant": "signature",
			"kind": 4096,
			"flags": {},
			"comment": {
				"summary": []
			},
			"parameters": [
				{
					"id": 7082,
					"name": "initialAuthState",
					"variant": "param",
					"kind": 32768,
					"flags": {
						"isOptional": true
					},
					"comment": {
						"summary": [
							{
								"kind": "text",
								"text": "An object containing the initial authentication state. If not provided, the hook will attempt to derive the state from the context."
							}
						]
					},
					"type": {
						"type": "intrinsic",
						"name": "any"
					},
					"defaultValue": "{}"
				}
			],
			"type": {
				"type": "reflection",
				"declaration": {
					"id": 7083,
					"name": "__type",
					"variant": "declaration",
					"kind": 65536,
					"flags": {},
					"children": [
						{
							"id": 7103,
							"name": "orgRole",
							"variant": "declaration",
							"kind": 1024,
							"flags": {},
							"comment": {
								"summary": [
									{
										"kind": "text",
										"text": "The current user's role in their active organization."
									}
								]
							},
							"type": {
								"type": "intrinsic",
								"name": "any"
							}
						},

I made the JSON snippet more concise by only showing the relevant bit.

So far I fail to reproduce it. Both in a simple case (https://stackblitz.com/edit/sb1-m67b1mfh?file=src%2Findex.ts) and with monorepo (https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-kirzw2eo?file=package.json).

So what am I'm missing that it doesn't work in my project? I do generate .d.ts.map files before running Typedoc.

[Gerrit0]

I suspect this is to do with the union type -- before #2920 was fixed (not yet released, this weekend probably) TypeDoc didn't handle anything tagged with @inline which wasn't a simple object type. If I install the current master branch of typedoc, comment out all your plugins (thank you for putting plugin config in separate objects! That made it super easy to do) and run, I get the following signature:

[LekoArts]

I've also tried the master branch on my own and indeed, it fixes the issues I was seeing. Thanks! It now correctly inlines / resolves the types 👍

However, I'm seeing other stuff break with this in combination with https://github.com/typedoc2md/typedoc-plugin-markdown though. If you comment in our plugins again and look at .typedoc/docs/clerk-react/functions/use-auth.mdx you'll see that the ## Returns heading suddenly got empty.

I'll let the maintainer know and look into what needs changing, wanted to let you know in case this was unintentional.
typedoc2md/typedoc-plugin-markdown#799

[LekoArts]

Ok, the markdown plugin will handle it by displaying the union :)