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Hivaga
Hivaga

Reputation: 4496

What is 'declare global' in Typescript?

What is "declare global" and how is it possible ? I found this code inside Lodash typings. The problem is that when I try to replicate this into my.d.ts file exactly since global is not a namespace, module, function or var, I'm not allowed to do it. So question is how this declaration is possible in Typescript.

PS So maybe there are some additional compiler options which will allow this?

declare global {
    interface Set<T> { }
}

Upvotes: 50

Views: 42748

Answers (1)

Titian Cernicova-Dragomir
Titian Cernicova-Dragomir

Reputation: 249486

This is not dependent on compiler settings. declare global is used inside a file that has import or export to declare things in the global scope. This is necessary in files that contain import or export since such files are considered modules, and anything declared in a module is in the module scope.

Using declare global in a file that is not a module (that is contains no import/export) is an error since everything in such a file is in the global scope anyway.

Upvotes: 67

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