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docs: explain the clash with webmcp-types - #76
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…coexistence # Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md
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Summary
If an app installs Google's
webmcp-typesnext to webmcp-react, the two globalDocument.modelContextdeclarations clash. Theirs isreadonlywith a different type. WithskipLibCheckoff you get TS2687/TS2717. With it on, TypeScript silently uses whichever declaration it reads first.Fixing that properly means dropping our global, which breaks anyone typing
document.modelContextthrough us. So for now this just documents it:docs/api.md: new "TypeScript and webmcp-types" section covering what happens and the workaround (a.d.tswith the reference directive listed first ininclude)Heads up: #74 also adds an
## Unreleasedheading to the changelog, so whichever lands second needs a quick merge.Test Plan
skipLibCheckoff errors,"types": ["webmcp-types"]gives ours, reference directive listed first inincludegives theirs