Add a new property to the window with TypeScript

If I do window.db = db; to expose the variable db for debugging purposes, I am told "window doesn't have that property".

It looked like I could declare it with Quick Fix, so I did and it added db : any to the interface Window definition in lib.dom.d.ts. I hate this because I will definitely forget to change it back later.

In TypeScript, declarations are generally merged. So you don't have to edit them directly.

code:typescript

declare global {

interface Window { db: any; }

}

window.db = db;

This global is a kind of Module Augmentation, Global augmentation. see [Declaration Merging - TypeScript https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/ handbook/declaration-merging.html]

code:typescript

declare module "./modulename" {

interface Foo { Bar: Baz; }

}

The "global" is added to mean "do not define a new Window in the module in which this declaration is written, but merge it with the global Window.

---

This page is auto-translated from /nishio/TypeScriptでwindowに新しいプロパティを足す. If you looks something interesting but the auto-translated English is not good enough to understand it, feel free to let me know at @nishio_en. I'm very happy to spread my thought to non-Japanese readers.