cross-package re-export fails to resolve definition

[teidesu]

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When using "entryPointStrategy": "packages" in a monorepo where one package re-exports something from another one, links to definition are not correctly resolved:

Additionally, the extends clause links to the re-exported definition instead of the imported one (idk if this is expected, though):

Expected Behavior

Links to definition are correctly resolved, and extends links to the original definition

Actual Behavior

Links to definition are not correctly resolved, and extends links to re-exported definition

Steps to reproduce the bug

TypeStrong/typedoc-repros#33

Environment

• Typedoc version: 0.25.2
• TypeScript version: 5.2.2
• Node.js version: 18.12.1
• OS: macOS 13.5

[Gerrit0]

Thanks for the repro! This appears to be the same issue as #2416 for your first issue, so I'm going to track that over there.

The cross-package re-export issue unfortunately I do consider to be working as intended. There isn't a good way for TypeDoc to track that a symbol has been exported from another package, particularly since packages mode is really designed to be a thin wrapper around rendering each package to JSON and then merging the packages.

I'd recommend changing the configuration for packages/outer to be:

{
  "entryPoints": ["./index.ts"],
  "excludeExternals": true,
  "externalPattern": ["**/dist/**"]
}

And then, once #2416 is fixed, that should link between packages as expected.