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

While I found that is now possible with this:

class ClassyClass {
    prop = 'Juicy Strings'
}

function x( this: ClassyClass ) {
    console.log( this.prop )
}

I have come prefer an alternative that doesn't take up real estate in the arguments line

function x() {
    const that: ClassyClass = this

    console.log( that.prop )
}