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Type of Alignment (and other constants) in types/index.d.ts is a 'type' instead of a 'value'
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Description
Currently, Alignment is exported as a variable directly in index.js
```
export { default as Column, Alignment, FrozenDirection } from './Column';
```
and is defined as
```
export const Alignment = {
LEFT: 'left',
CENTER: 'center',
RIGHT: 'right',
};
```
However, in types/index.d.ts, Alignment is specified as
```
export type Alignment = 'left' | 'right' | 'center';
```
which is a type, not a value. This means that a statement like
```
import { Alignment } from 'react-base-table'
const column = {
align: Alignment.CENTER
}
```
Will fail if compiled with typescript, since types cannot be used as values:
```
'Alignment' only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here.ts(2693)
```
Later in types/index.d.ts, Column.Alignment is typed:
```
export class Column extends React.Component> {
static readonly Alignment: {
readonly LEFT: 'left';
readonly CENTER: 'center';
readonly RIGHT: 'right';
};
static readonly FrozenDirection: {
readonly LEFT: 'left';
readonly RIGHT: 'right';
readonly DEFAULT: true;
readonly NONE: false;
};
}
```
So the code
```
import { Column } from 'react-base-table'
const column = {
align: Column.Alignment.CENTER
}
```
Will compile.
Alignment should likely be typed the same way, since Column.Alignment === Alignment.
Not sure exactly what the right solution is, since changing the types now is technically a breaking change to the types (Someone could currently be doing something like:
```
import { Column, Alignment } from 'react-base-table'
const myColumnAlignment: Alignment = Column.Alignment.CENTER
```
It's unclear to me if this is just happenstance, or it was actually intended.
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