Common Errors

In this section we explain a number of common error codes that users experience in the real world.

TS2304

Samples:

Cannot find name ga

You are probably using a third party library (e.g. google analytics) and don’t have it declared. TypeScript tries to save you from spelling mistakes and using variables without declaring them so you need to be explicit on anything that is available at runtime because of you including some external library (more on how to fix it).

TS2307

Samples:

Cannot find module 'underscore'

You are probably using a third party library (e.g. underscore) as a module (more on modules) and don’t have the ambient declaration file for it (more on ambient declarations).

TS1148

Sample:

Cannot compile modules unless the ‘—module’ flag is provided

Checkout the section on modules.

Catch clause variable cannot have a type annotation

Sample:

try { something(); }
catch (e: Error) { // Catch clause variable cannot have a type annotation
}

TypeScript is protecting you from JavaScript code in the wild being wrong. Use a type guard instead:

try { something(); }
catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof Error){
    // Here you go.
  }
}

Interface ElementClass cannot simultaneously extend types Component and Component

This happens when you have two react.d.ts (@types/react/index.d.ts) in the compilation context.

Fix:

• Delete node_modules and any package-lock (or yarn lock) and npm install again.
• If it doesn’t work, find the invalid module (all modules used by your project should have react.d.ts as a peerDependency and not a hard dependency) and report it on their project.

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Other modules that people tend to use and get errors:

• Cannot find name $
• Cannot find module jquery