type errors on addEventListener for any class that extends from EventDispatcher

[RodrigoHamuy]

• @types/three version: from 0.168.0
• three-stdlib version: 2.34.0

Problem description:

@types/three introduced on v168 the breaking change that unknown events can no longer be dispatched in EventDispatcher (source).

Relevant code:

So now this will throw TS errors:

import { OrbitControls } from "three-stdlib";

const orbit = new OrbitControls();

orbit.addEventListener("start", ()=> console.log('started'));
// Argument of type 'string' is not assignable to parameter of type 'never'.

Suggested solution:

One easy way would be to upgrade @types/three and then update any classes that extend from EventDispatcher.

But I don't think that will work if we want to maintain backward compatibility?

Another option is to maintain a copy of the latest EventDispatcher and use that instead? I guess that would sort backwards compatibility?