webpack TS2304 Cannot find name 'Map', 'Set', 'Promise'

Question

I have the following webpack.config.js

var path = require(\"path\");
var webpack = require(\'webpack\');

module.exports = {
  entry: {
    \'ng2-auto-comple         


        

Answer 1

I added this to work in tsconfig.json, and it seems working without any error.

  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es5",
    "lib": ["es5", "es6", "dom"],  <--- this
    ...
  }

I am not sure lib are for Typescript 2.0 function or not, but found out there are several libraries are available

From the typescript config schema (note the es2015.collection)

 "lib": {
      "description": "Specify library file to be included in the compilation. Requires TypeScript version 2.0 or later.",
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [ "es5", "es6", "es2015", "es7", "es2016", "es2017", "dom", "webworker", "scripthost", "es2015.core", "es2015.collection", "es2015.generator", "es2015.iterable",
                    "es2015.promise", "es2015.proxy", "es2015.reflect", "es2015.symbol", "es2015.symbol.wellknown", "es2016.array.include", "es2017.object", "es2017.sharedmemory" ]
      }
    }

This solves the compile errors, but I still wonder why tsc command works without any errors, but webpack does not. tsc searches for all possible libraries without using lib by tsconfig.json?