Thank you for putting this up! I sent you an invite to the repository so you can work with it more directly. I'll be happy to give some pointers on repository organization but will leave review up to the other maintainers. One thing to maybe consider since it is already a refactoring would be how the API could be improved working with the upcoming more custom methods feathersjs/feathers#1976

Thanks for your trust. I happily accepted the invite.
I will keep this PR here for some time until the other maintainers are totally fine with it.
My plan would be to release a pre-version first. If someone got that working, maybe we can work out a way to v4. As of now, I think it would be the best to integrate some breaking changes. But I want to discuss it with the other maintainers first.

I will speak up, when I got something new.

This is awesome, thanks for the work !

Thanks :) I'm not quite through though. Currently I have not that much time, but I'm willing to get this finished.
If you had something to add for now, I would be happy. Otherwise I will come to this again in a few weeks 😃

I think this is getting somewhere and I want to open a discussion on some thoughts, that I have:

1. opt-in or opt-out separate services by default? As of now it's enabled by default Rework #144
2. paths for separate services as of now are quite long (see below). Are there suggestions for better/shorter names?:

{ // `path` is the provided authManagement-path ('authManagement' by default)
    checkUnique: `${path}/check-unique`,
    identityChange: `${path}/identity-change`,
    passwordChange: `${path}/password-change`,
    resendVerifySignup: `${path}/resend-verify-signup`,
    resetPwdLong: `${path}/reset-password-long`,
    resetPwdShort: `${path}/reset-password-short`,
    sendResetPwd: `${path}/send-reset-pwd`,
    verifySignupLong: `${path}/verify-signup-long`,
    verifySignupSetPasswordLong: `${path}/verify-signup-set-password-long`,
    verifySignupSetPasswordShort: `${path}/verify-signup-set-password-short`,
    verifySignupShort: `${path}/verify-signup-short`
}

@claustres @TheSinding What do you think about the two points above? And what do you think about this PR at all? Any pointers, criticism, etc. is highly appreciated! Are there points, that disturbed you in feathers-authentication-management, which should be changed in an upcoming major release?
My next step is to improve the vuepress-docs.

Any comments are appreciated :)

Hi @fratzinger, this is huge, thanks a lot! Just to clarify what you did: this is not only a port to TypeScript, but you are also going to implement the "REST wrapper" discussed in #144, right? Is this what you mean with "separate services"? And will this new version of the package be fully backward compatible?

1. "REST wrapper": yep, that's what I meant.
2. fully backward compatible: I'm on it. There could be some quirks. One that I know of, is the client part. I have to work on that one (less Typescript magic, I guess). But yes, my intention is, to make it fully backward compatible. Nonetheless I would make a major release though. At least I think of marking some things as DEPRECATED (the actions with the REST wrapper as a successor) and then remove them anytime in the future.

closed in favor of #164 . See ongoing work over there.