Typescript file cannot find the declarations defined in .d.ts file

Question

I'm trying to declare some global window functions for my typescript plugin. The functions are defined in the browser and i want them to be declared in the code aswell.

For some odd reason my code cant find those declarations from that file. The declarations are in @types/globals.d.ts file.

Do i need to configure the tsconfig.json file or something like that. Cant seem to find a straight answer from anywhere else.

Just in case, here is my tsconfig.json file

{ 
    "compilerOptions": {
      "outDir": "./dist/",
      "noImplicitAny": true,
      "module": "es6",
      "target": "es5",
      "strict": true,
      "sourceMap": true,
      "allowJs": true,
      "moduleResolution": "node"
    }
}

globals.d.ts

index.ts

Here's the error message

Thanks in advance.

Pretty sure you can't set TypeScript definition files somewhere else than in a "sibling" file (same directory, same name, .d.ts extension) — Guerric P
– Guerric P, Commented Aug 4, 2021 at 11:57

Oliver Ilmjärv · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-05 05:29:32Z

2

Correct solution was to redefine the window interface. Now the rest of the files automatically detect the types.

declare global {
  interface Window {
    section: string;
    __t: (string: string) => string;
    apiSessionKey: string;
    companyData: CompanyData;
    conf_dateformat: string;
    country: string;
    customerCode: string;
    decimalSymbol: string;
    employeeEmail: string;
    employeeID: number;
    employeeName: string;
    formAttributes: any[];
    gdprFeaturesEnabled: boolean;
    isExistingRecord: boolean;
    page_lang: string;
    priceDecimals: number;
    recordID: number;
    subsection: string;
    thousandsSeparator: string;
    userGroupID: number;
    userGroupName: string;
    userID: number;
    userName: string;
  }
}

answered Aug 5, 2021 at 5:29

Oliver Ilmjärv

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