TypeScript, RequireJS shim, ambient module declaration

Question

I've got the following which points to a backbone.d.ts definition.

import Backbone = module("../../../dep/backbone/backbone");

export class Codebook extends Backbone.Model {

    defaults() {
        return {
            id: -1,
            title: -1
        }
    }

    initialize() {
        // do nothing
    }

}

With --module amd it generates the following.

define(["require", "exports", "../../../dep/backbone/backbone"], function(require, exports, __Backbone__) {

I've shimmed backbone with my RequireJS configuration file because of the global. I'd like for my define to just say backbone instead of the relative path. Is there any workaround besides a post-build process to manipulate the define?

Answer 1

I think the solution to this issue is to put the Ambient Declaration in the same location as the eventual real module, so you can reference it with the same path.

So backbone.d.ts needs to be in the same location as backbone.js.