Recently I made a PR to a repo to add a typings field in package.json, and the maintainer proposed the following change:
- "typings": "./src/index.d.ts",
- "main": "./src/index.js",
- "exports": "./src/index.js",
+ "main": "./src/index.js",
+ "exports": "./src/index.js",
+ "types": "./src/index.d.ts",
I wonder if there is a recommended rule or convention of orders of entries in package.json.
It could be that the maintainer has a formating tool enabled like prettier that automatically sorts the package.json file. Or maybe they just like ordering their scripts in order of execution. Either way it's a json object so ultimately the order of the fields does not matter, just the nesting.
Another thought is they could be using a special batch or shell script that hand cranks the package.json during CD, converting the scripts object to an array that gets run in order of execution. Without seeing the github I can't be sure though.