withComponentAnnotations?

How about justcomponent? (Since in v3 there's no globalVue.component anymore)

import{component}from'vue'constApp=component({// ...})

I was thinking this exact thing.component seems reasonable.

I'm good withwithComponentAnnotations - or perhaps preferably,annotateComponent - as an alternative, since it also gives us a pattern we can follow for type annotation functions like this. The only reason I still likedefine better isannotate is harder to spell, especially for our international users.

I worry thatcomponent would be even worse thancreateComponent because coming from Vue 2, most people would probably expect it to do the same thing asVue.component. It also doesn't provide a pattern to hint to users that it's just for typings. Plus, it works very differently from other verb-less functions likereactive,ref,computed, etc, which all return a new instance of the thing they describe.

True that, trying to google what does Vue.component do could lead to irrelevant results. Also JSFiddle and Codepen projects extensively use that to play with components.

@CyberAP That's true! Googlingcomponent would be pretty difficult.

Ok in this case I'm fine withdefineComponent. When using TS you'd get this auto-imported so a bit of verbosity doesn't really matter.

annotateComponent sounds inaccurate to me, because technically it provides type inference, not adding "annotations" to the component.

Reading some guides online that havecreateComponent and I got

Module '"../../../node_modules/vue/dist/vue"' has no exported member 'createComponent'. Did you mean 'ConcreteComponent'?ts(2724)

Saw the merge and thought, "I wonder if it's renamed" and yes it is. 👍

The correct import is

import { defineComponent } from 'vue';

I guess I should have read this first:https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/typescript-support.html#defining-vue-components