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Hi :wave:

The TS SDK uses `axios` internally. However, consumers don’t necessarily need to install that dependency.

When dealing with error handling we need to type the `error`  as `AxiosError` . The `@ory/client` package doesn’t export that type declaration, requiring consumers to install `axios` just for accessing the type.

If would be great if the type `AxiosError`  can be exported from the `@ory/client`  package so that consumers don’t need to explicitly install `axios`  dependency.

Would that be possible? Happy to contribute to that if needed.

Thanks :hugging_face:

could you use Typescript’s ReturnType utility type?

The `ReturnType` is used for functions. Here we’re talking about the `error`  object.

```try {
  // some Ory API call
} catch (error) {
  if (error instanceof AxiosError) {
    // handle error
  }
}```

If `axios` is meant to be an implementation detail, we can also expose the error type with a different name like `OryError`  or something.