Declaring the type of 'this' in a typescript function?

Question

I\'m writing a grunt task in TypeScript. I\'m trying to translate something I already have in JavaScript.

So, when grunt runs a task, it runs a function. When it ru

Answer 1

How do I tell TypeScript to consider this to be a different type

You can do that by declaring a this parameter. For your use case I've added this: {files:any[]}:

grunt.registerMultiTask('clean', function(this: {files:any[]}) {
    this.files.forEach(function(f) { Delete(f); });
});

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• Official docs on this parameter