TS1086: An accessor cannot be declared in an ambient context

Question

When running with Angular, I\'m getting thje error TS1086: An accessor cannot be declared in an ambient context. for Javascript getters and setters in this Abstract

Answer 1

I had this a similar problem with google-auth-library.

I'm on Ubuntu and call tsc to transpile my nodejs server from typescript to javascript, but running 'tsc' was throwing the 'TS1086: An accessor cannot be declared in an ambient context' error.

Initially, I tried updating typescript by running npm install typescript@latest from my server directory but was still seeing errors.

I had to update my global version of typescript so 'tsc' could run, but running npm install typescript@latest -g was also throwing errors. I had to remove the tsc link in /usr/bin/.

What I did to fix:

$ cd /usr/bin
$ sudo rm tsc
$ sudo npm install -g typescript@latest

Calling 'tsc' worked without errors after this.