Type is referenced directly or indirectly in the fulfillment callback of its own 'then' method

Question

An errors blows up when using the typings for the the Google Auth2 API - @types/gapi.auth2. The compiler throws an error 1062 if I create a promise

Answer 1

This is the way I found to circumvent this error

private async loadGapiAuth() {
  await new Promise((resolve) => gapi.load('client:auth2', resolve));
  await new Promise((resolve) => gapi.auth2.init(GAPI_CONFIG).then(resolve));
}

then I can do this:

await this.loadGapiAuth();
const auth = gapi.auth2.getAuthInstance();