How do you explicitly set a new property on `window` in TypeScript?

Question

I setup global namespaces for my objects by explicitly setting a property on window.

window.MyNamespace = window.MyNamespace || {};

Answer 1

I wanted to use this in an Angular (6) library today and it took me a while to get this to work as expected.

In order for my library to use declarations I had to use the d.ts extention for the file that declares the new properties of the global object.

So in the end, the file ended up with something like:

/path-to-angular-workspace/angular-workspace/projects/angular-library/src/globals.d.ts

Once created, don't forget to expose it in your public_api.ts.

That did it for me. Hope this helps.